We would like to thank Jeffery Avery and Associates, and in particular Jeff Avery for the professional manner in which they conducted our recent house clearance.
They cleared my mother-in-law’s house following her death and in all our dealings with them during the process they were nothing but helpful.
Amanda Imregi, London
As a long established House Clearance Company based in Hampshire we are able to provide our services anywhere in the county.
The majority of our work is by recommendation, and we have been carrying out house clearances in Hampshire for many years. By reputation, and as a local company, we are regularly instructed by solicitors, executors and private clients to carry out all types of house clearance.
We can completely clear, and thoroughly clean any sized property, and arrange for the contents to be donated to charity, recycled, or where necessary, disposed of, leaving it ready for sale or transfer to a landlord.
We specialise in clearing large heavily furnished, cluttered or neglected properties possibly the result of ill health or compulsive hoarding (OCD). After receiving your instruction we can clear your property quickly and methodically, and during the process retain any personal items, documents or concealed valuables for your examination. Our experienced staff will make the whole process easy and stress free, even if you are organising the clearance from another part of the country or overseas.
We provide our own closed vehicles, (contents not visible externally, so as to ensure privacy) to clear away all household contents. Parking permits are arranged and included in all our quotes. Our aim is to assist you fully by taking care of the entire job from start to finish.
If you need a House Clearance in Hampshire Call us now on 0800 567 7769.
For free advice and more detailed information contact Jeff Avery.
Our initial consultation and all our quotations are free and without obligation.
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Abbotts Ann SP11; Aldershot GU12; Alresford Alton GU34; Andover SP10; Ashurst SO40; Basingstoke RG21; Beaulieu SO42; Bentley GU10; Bishop's Waltham SO32; Blackfield SO45; Blackmoor GU33; Bordon GU35; Botley SO30; Braishfield SO51; Bramdean SO24; Bransgore BH23; Breamore SP6; Brockenhurst SO42; Broughton SO20; Bucklers Hard SO42; Burgh-clere RG20; Burley BH24; Bursledon SO31; Cadnam SO40; Chandler's Ford SO53; Chilbolton SO20; Cosham PO6; Droxford SO32; Dummer RG25; Durley SO32; East End RG20; East End SO41; East Meon GU32; Eastleigh SO50; Emsworth PO10; Eversley RG27
Fair Oak SO50; Fareham PO16; Farnborough GU11; Fawley SO45; Fleet GU13; Fordingbridge SP6; Gosport PO12; Grateley SP11; Hamble SO31; Hambledon PO7; Hartley Wintney RG27; Hatherden SP11; Havant PO9; Hawkley GU33; Hayling Island PO11; Headley RG19; Headley GU35; Heckfield RG27; Herriard RG25; Highclere RG20; Hook RG27; Horndean PO8; Hursley SO21; Hurstbourne Tarrant SP11; Hythe SO45; Itchen Abbas SO21; King's Somborne SO20; Kingsclere RG20; Lee-on-the-Solent PO13; Linkenholt SP11; Liphook GU30; Liss GU33; Lockerley SO51; Locks Heath SO31; Long Sutton RG29; Longparish SP11; Lymington SO41; Lyndhurst SO43
Micheldever SO21; Milford on Sea SO41; Odiham RG29; Ower SO51; Owslebury SO21; Passfield GU30; Petersfield GU31; Portchester PO16; Portsmouth PO5; Preston Candover RG25; Privett GU34; Ringwood BH24; Rockbourne SP6; Romsey SO51; Ropley SO24; Rowland's Castle PO9
Selborne GU34; Silchester RG7; Southampton SO15 Sparsholt SO21; St Mary Bourne SP11; Stockbridge SO20; Stubbington PO14; Sutton Scotney SO21; Tadley RG26; Titchfield PO14; Totton SO40; Turgis Green RG27; Twyford SO21; Waterlooville PO7; West End SO30; West Meon GU32; West Wellow SO51; Weyhill SP11; Whitchurch RG28; Wickham PO17; Winchester SO23; Yateley GU46
PO1 PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth, Fratton
PO2 PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth, Hilsea, North End
PO3 PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth, Hilsea
PO4 SOUTHSEA Southsea
PO5 SOUTHSEA Southsea
PO6 PORTSMOUTH Cosham
PO7 WATERLOOVILLE Waterlooville, Denmead, Purbrook
PO8 WATERLOOVILLE Clanfield, Cowplain, Horndean
PO9 HAVANT, ROWLAND'S CASTLE Havant, Rowland's Castle
PO10 EMSWORTH Emsworth
PO11 HAYLING ISLAND Hayling Island
PO12 GOSPORT Gosport, Alverstoke, Hardway
PO13 GOSPORT, LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT Gosport, Lee-on-the-Solent
PO14 FAREHAM Fareham, Hill Head, Stubbington, Titchfield
PO15 FAREHAM Fareham, Titchfield, Whiteley
PO16 FAREHAM
PO17 FAREHAM
SO14 SOUTHAMPTON City Centre, St. Mary's, Newtown, Nicholstown, Ocean Village, Chapel, Eastern Docks, Bevois Valley Southampton
SO15 SOUTHAMPTON Shirley, Freemantle, Banister Park, Millbrook Southampton
SO16 SOUTHAMPTON Bassett, Redbridge, Rownhams, Nursling, Chilworth Southampton, Test Valley
SO17 SOUTHAMPTON Highfield, Portswood, St Denys, Swaythling Southampton
SO18 SOUTHAMPTON Bitterne, Bitterne Park, Chartwell Green, Townhill Park, Southampton Airport Southampton, Eastleigh
SO19 SOUTHAMPTON Sholing, Thornhill Southampton
SO20 STOCKBRIDGE Stockbridge Test Valley
SO21 WINCHESTER Compton, Colden Common, Hursley, Micheldever, Owslebury, Shawford, South Wonston, Sutton Scotney, Sparsholt, Twyford Winchester
SO22 WINCHESTER Badger Farm, Fulflood, Hursley, Littleton and Harestock, Olivers Battery, Pitt, St Cross (W), Stanmore, Weeke Winchester
SO23 WINCHESTER City Centre, Abbotts Barton, Bar End, Highcliffe, Hyde, St Cross (E), Winnall Winchester
SO24 ALRESFORD New Alresford, Old Alresford, Cheriton, Tichborne Winchester
SO30 SOUTHAMPTON Botley, Hedge End, West End Eastleigh
SO31 SOUTHAMPTON Warsash, Hamble-le-Rice , Locks Heath Eastleigh, Fareham
SO32 SOUTHAMPTON Bishops Waltham, Corhampton, Droxford, Durley, Exton, Meonstoke, Shedfield, Soberton, Swanmore, Upham, Warnford, Wickham Eastleigh, Winchester
SO40 LYNDHURST, SOUTHAMPTON Totton, Lyndhurst, Cadnam, Marchwood New Forest
SO41 LYMINGTON Milford-on-Sea, Pennington, Boldre New Forest
SO42 BROCKENHURST Beaulieu New Forest
SO43 LYNDHURST New Forest
SO45 SOUTHAMPTON Hythe, Fawley, Blackfield, Calshot, Hardley New Forest
SO50 EASTLEIGH Town Centre Eastleigh
SO51 ROMSEY Romsey, Ampfield, Lockerley, Mottisfont, Wellow Test Valley
SO52 ROMSEY North Baddesley Test Valley
SO53 EASTLEIGH Chandler's Ford Eastleigh, Test Valley
The chalk downland of the South Downs and southern edges of Salisbury Plain were settled in the neolithic, and these settlers built hill forts such as Winklebury and may have farmed the valleys of Hampshire. Hampshire was part of an area named Gwent or Y Went by the Celts, which also covered areas of Somerset and Wiltshire. In the Roman invasion of Britain, Hampshire was one of the first areas to fall to the invading forces. The southern portion of the county known as the Meon and in particular the valley of the River Hamble was occupied by Jutish tribes from perhaps as early as 495. Later West Saxon migrants absorbed the Jutish tribes within Wessex after 530.
Some scholars believe there is evidence to show the traditional county boundaries of Hampshire may date back to the years of the original West Saxon settlement in c.519. It is likely that both Winchester and Silchester would have fallen to the West Saxons between the years 508 and 514. A later thrust up the Hampshire Avon towards Old Sarum in 519 appears to have been checked by the Britons at Charford. The historian Albany Major in Early Wars of Wessex makes the case that the borders of the traditional county of Hampshire probably match those of the first West Saxon kingdom established by Cerdic and his son. Evidence of this comes from the border between Hampshire and Berkshire which follows generally the line of the Roman road that ran east and west through Silchester, but it is deflected in the north in a rough semi-circle in such a way as to include the whole of the district around the town. He argues that the capture of Silchester, of which no record has been passed down to us, was not the work of Mercian Angles but of the West Saxons probably striking north from Winchester and possibly acting in concert with a separate force making its way up the Thames Valley towards Reading. Silchester was left desolate after its fall and it is most improbable that any regard would have been paid to its side of the border had the fixing of the county boundary been made at a later period.
Study of the borders between Hampshire and Wiltshire also seem to suggest the West Saxon's westward advance was checked by about 519AD. The area north of Charford This would corroborate the date given in the Annales Cambriae for the crucial British victory at the Battle of Mons Badonicus in 517AD which is believed to have stopped further Anglo-Saxon encroachments in south-west and midland Britain for at least a generation.
Hampshire was one of the first Saxon shires, recorded in 755 as Hamtunscir, but for two centuries represented the western end of Saxon England, as advances into Dorset and Somerset were fought off by the Britons. The name is derived from the port of Southampton which was known previously as simply "Hampton". After the Saxons advanced further west Hampshire became the centre of the Kingdom of Wessex, and many Saxon kings are buried at Winchester. A statue in Winchester celebrates the powerful King Alfred, who stabilised the region in the 9th century.
After the Norman Conquest the county was favoured by Norman kings who established the New Forest as a hunting forest. The county was recorded in the Domesday Book divided into 44 hundreds. From the 12th century the ports grew in importance, fuelled by trade with the continent, wool and cloth manufacture in the county, and the fishing industry, and a shipbuilding industry was established.
Over several centuries a series of castles and forts were constructed along the coast of the Solent to defend the harbours at Southampton and Portsmouth. These include the Roman Portchester Castle which overlooks Portsmouth Harbour, and a series of forts built by Henry VIII including Hurst Castle, situated on a sand spit at the mouth of the Solent, Calshot Castle on another spit at the mouth of Southampton Water, and Netley Castle. Southampton and Portsmouth remained important harbours when rivals, such as Poole and Bristol declined, as they are amongst the few locations that combine shelter with deep water. Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being staffed largely by natives of Southampton.
Hampshire played a large role in World War II due to its large Royal Navy harbour at Portsmouth, the army camp at Aldershot and the military Netley Hospital on Southampton Water, as well as its proximity to the army training ranges on Salisbury Plain and the Isle of Purbeck. Supermarine, the designers of the Spitfire and other military aircraft, were based in Southampton, which led to severe bombing of the city. Aldershot remains one of the British Army's main permanent camps. Farnborough is a major centre for the Aviation industry.
The county has in the past been called "Southamptonshire" and appears as such on some Victorian maps.[citation needed] The name of the administrative county was changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire' on 1 April 1959.[citation needed] The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants. This abbreviated form is derived from the Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this had been compressed to Hantescire.
The Isle of Wight has traditionally been treated as part of Hampshire for some purposes, but has been administratively independent for over a century, obtaining a county council of its own in 1890. The Isle of Wight became a full ceremonial county in 1974. Apart from a shared police force there are now no formal administrative links between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, though many organisations still combine Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
The towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch also fall within the traditional county of Hampshire, but were ceded to Dorset in the local government reorganisation of 1974.
The interesting facts on this page were derived from Wikipedia.
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