Hook

Hook is a small metropolis and civil parish inside the Hart district of northern Hampshire, England. It is placed km east of Basingstoke and 58 km northeast of Southampton, at the A30 countrywide course, truly north of Junction five of the M3 highway. London is 66 km northeast of the city. In 2016, Hook had a population of 7,916. Hook railway station presently has direct rail links to every London Waterloo and Basingstoke with indirect routes to Reading, Salisbury, and Southampton. Rail offerings are furnished by way of South Western Railway.

There is a huge organization community inside the city, with the massive Bartley Wood Business Park positioned much less than 0.97 km from the city centre. It is the area of the operational headquarters of the United Kingdom's biggest cable TV company, Virgin Media, previously NTL and Telewest. There is the precept line rail station stated above and direct get right of entry to to the M3 toll road, further to the without delay course parallelling the Roman avenue the A30 connecting nearby towns collectively with Basingstoke and Yateley.

Southampton Airport is fifty six km to the south and London Heathrow Airport is 53 km away to the northeast. The a protracted way smaller Blackbushe Airport municipal air facility is 10.5 km to the east, close to Yateley. Many residents go to and fro to the bigger nearby towns of Basingstoke, Winchester, Reading, Camberley, Fleet and Farnborough, with some touring similarly afield to Southampton, Bracknell and London.