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Totton and Eling
Eling Tide Mill at night
Totton and Eling shown within Hampshire
Population	~28,000
OS grid reference	SU362131
District	New Forest
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SOUTHAMPTON
Postcode district	SO40
Dialling code	023
Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	New Forest East
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Hampshire

Coordinates: 50°55′N 1°29′W / 50.92, -1.49

Totton and Eling is a town and civil parish in Hampshire, UK, with a population of around 28,000 people. It is situated on the eastern edge of the New Forest and on the River Test, close to the city of Southampton and part of the city's urban area.

Totton claimed to be the largest village in England until it was made a town in 1974. Until the 1950s, New Forest ponies were free to roam its streets.

Totton's town centre hasn't changed much since the seventies and it only has Commercial Road and the A35 causeway as the main exit routes from the town.

The areas behind Calmore Industrial Estate by the river Test have been regenerated for boating with lakes, but its main use is fishing and as a water supply resource. The is also the Testwood Lakes Centre, with walks along the Test Way running from Totton to Inkpen Beacon in Berkshire, via Romsey in Hampshire.

Eling can be accessed by crossing the railway line which divides the original old village of Totton and the areas of Eling, and Hounsdown. This goes to Brokenford which has some pathways from Totton to the A35 Bypass road at Eling recreation ground, by Bartley Water.

Contents 1 Transport 2 Sport 3 Schools 4 Local area 5 History 5.1 Early history 5.2 Recent history 6 External links 7 References

Totton is served by the railway at Totton railway station. This is on the South Western Main Line to Southampton, London Waterloo, Bournemouth and Poole.

There are lots of bus routes around the town and to Southamption, Lyndhurst, Cadnam and down the 'Waterside' (Hythe, Dibden), run by Solent Blue Line, Wilts and Dorset and First Hampshire & Dorset.

One of the most successful sporting enterprises of the area in recent years has been Totton and Eling cricket club. Under its former guise of B.A.T. Sports, it won the Southern Premier league, the highest level of club cricket in the Hampshire area, four times in six seasons (2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006). The club's current version, in force since late 2006, is (at the time of writing - July 2007) leading the Southern Premier League once again. A.F.C. Totton Football Club are currently making plans to build a new ground worth 2.5 million pounds. There is the Tottonians, a Rugby Football club [1]. Totton is also said to be the boxing capital of the south.

Totton now has two secondary schools,^[1] the original Testwood School (built in the 1940s) and Hounsdown (built in 1963) within the boundary of the Totton and Eling Civil Parish.^[2] Hounsdown being a 'science college' and Testwood, a 'sports college'. The Testwood school logo has the river, the wood and the salmon encompassed into it, indicating the River Test and the Salmon leap. Totton also has a sixth form college: Totton College.

Both schools share a strong rivalry between each other which is often reflected from sporting events to clashes between pupils outside of school. The severity of this led Hounsdown to change the time their school finishes 15 minutes earlier, from half past three to quater past three.

The nearest city is Southampton over the Causeway bridge through Millbrook.

The Totton area includes Calmore, Testwood, Salmon Leap and Hammonds Green.

The Eling area includes Hounsdown, Spicers Hill, Rushington (now known as Rushington Manor) and Brokenford.

The surrounding villages are Colbury, Foxhills, Ashurst, Netley Marsh, and Marchwood.

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Eling was founded in 850 by Ethelwulf of Wessex. Attractions in the town include its tide mill that is at one end of the Harbour and Eling's Norman parish church, St Mary's, built on Saxon foundations with registers dating back to 1537.

Eling Tide Mill is actually the only working tide mill in the UK and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

In addition, Eling contains Hampshire's only surviving medieval toll bridge across Bartley Water by the side of the tide mill. This has been in use since at least 1418 and still charges users today. There is a Town council run Heritage Centre, with details of the history of Totton and Eling.

Totton and Testwood and the Salmon Leap area are individually named but collectively formed the original village of Totton. Testwood was the only secondary school in Totton village with Hounsdown school being built later, a mile away, outside of the original Totton village boundaries.

The main roads "Ringwood Road" (A336) and "Salisbury Road" (A36) dissect Totton. All the housing between the two roads is considered to be the 'original' Totton village. Everything between the River Test and Salisbury Road is considered to be Testwood and all that falls between the A35 causeway (over the Test) and Testwood is considered Salmon Leap.

More recently large developments on Ringwood Road have been expanding towards Netley Marsh, this area is collectively called West Totton.

• Official Totton & Eling Town Council Website. Accessed 24/11/2007

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