Preston Candover

Preston Candover
The village pump at Preston Candover
Preston Candover Location within Hampshire
Population	357 [1] 510 (2011 Census including Bradley and Moundsmere)[2]
OS grid reference	SU6069341721
District	Basingstoke and Deane
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BASINGSTOKE
Postcode district	RG25
Dialling code	01256
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Winchester
Website	Preston Candover and Nutley Parish Council
List of places UK England Hampshire 51°10′19″N 1°07′59″W / 51.172°N 1.133°W / 51.172; -1.133

Preston Candover is a village and large civil parish in Hampshire, England. It has two churches, only one of which is still in use. Its nearest town is Basingstoke, approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km) away. It has an acreage of 3,457 acres (13.99 km²), which lies on comparatively low ground, south of the high country round the surrounding villages of Farleigh Wallop and Nutley, and north-west of that which rises to Wield and beyond to Bentworth. The village itself lies on the lowest ground towards the west of the parish on the road which comes northeast from Northington and the two other Candovers, and runs across the parish to enter Nutley at Axford and continues uphill to Farleigh Wallop and then to Basingstoke.

The village was home to the late Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and his wife Anya Linden, of the supermarket Sainsbury family. ^[3]