Locks Heath

Locks Heath is a western private suburb of Fareham, in the south of Hampshire, England. Locks Heath is promptly encompassed by a gathering of towns including Sarisbury toward the West, Swanwick, Park Gate and Whiteley toward the North, Warsash toward the South West and Titchfield toward the South East. The number of inhabitants in the town itself in 2011 was 7,104 while the more extensive Locks Heath neighborhood counting encompassing towns leveled with 43,359 starting at 2011.

In the late nineteenth and mid twentieth Century, the most critical neighborhood movement here was strawberry developing. The business created because of the 1866 Enclosure Acts which enabled the basic land to be part into a substantial number of little plots. The new plot proprietors required a yield that would give them a snappy wage from a little cost. The blend of reasonable soils and a gentle atmosphere, free from spring ices, demonstrated perfect for the generation of early trimming strawberries.

Their initial aging made them attractive in business sectors the nation over. Swanwick railroad station opened on 2 September 1889 and encouraged the transportation of substantial amounts of strawberries to clients everywhere throughout the nation. Strawberries were transported to the holding up trains by steed and truck. An enduring indication of this is a rail outwardly edge of what is presently the asphalt driving down the slope to the station.