Alton

Alton is a marketplace metropolis and civil parish in Hampshire, England, near the source of the River Wey. At the 2011 census, it had a populace of 17,816. Alton changed into recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as Aoltone. The Battle of Alton occurred in the city during the English Civil War. It also has connections with Sweet Fanny Adams and Jane Austen. Along with the rest of South East England, Alton has a Jane Austen Regency Week is a party of the time the author Jane Austen spent in Alton and Chawton and is held in June each year.

The Allen Gallery serves as Alton's art gallery. It houses a massive, permanent ceramics series in addition to brief exhibitions. Holybourne Theatre is at the website of a former Nissen hut that become converted right into a theatre through German prisoners-of-conflict during World War II. Plays have been achieved there on account that 1950, but the reputable opening become no longer until 1971.

Alton Morris changed into formed in 1979, and were Morris Dancing both in the United Kingdom and overseas. They often perform at Alton avenue events. Local choirs encompass Alton Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society, set up in 1921, who carry out two musical suggests and one play each 12 months in a extensive form of musical and dramatic patterns. Alton Community Choir sings unaccompanied Hampshire folks songs in addition to a few African, gospel, blues and calypso track.