OLIVERS BATTERY PARISH

Introduction

Oliver's Battery is a civil parish in Hampshire, England, of some 700 households located just to the south of the City of Winchester. The parish was formed in 1956 (in the then Winchester Rural District, and part of the City of Winchester District since 1974) from part of Compton parish. The parish does not include the whole of the settlement known informally as Oliver's Battery, with the northern boundary following the A3090 and therefore excluding Oliver's Battery Road North. The name Oliver's Battery refers to a prominent Iron Age earthwork. A fine Anglo-Saxon bowl from a burial within the Battery was on show for many years at the British Museum, but has now been returned to Winchester City Museum on long-term loan. The parish also contains a number of Bronze Age burial mounds. The Olivers Battery name dates back to the English Civil War and is specifically associated with Oliver Cromwell's siege of Winchester in 1645.

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	109 hectares
Population	1,591 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	1,455 people/km²
Mean age	48.4
Ward	Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery
District	Winchester
Postcodes	SO22
ONS ID	E04004679