Talk:Hedge End/Archive 1

What I did
Did some copy editing. Still needs someone familar with the area to clear up some ambiguous statements. --CopperMurdoch 19:57, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Two articles about the same place...
There is another artice on wikipedia called Hedge End, Hampshire which refers to the same Hedge End in this article. Most Confusing.

I agree. I have added some relevant facts from Hedge End, Hampshire to this article (which seems to be the more developed of the two) and plan to mark the other for deletion. The population trends info is from http://www.hants.gov.uk/factsandfigures/eastleighpop2005-12.html. I am new here and need to work out how to do references properly. Eilif 20:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Somebody got in before me and did a redirect. Eilif 08:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Town or village?
The article refers to Hedge End as both, and we should be consistent. Personally I'd plump for village as that's how locals usually refer to the place, and Hedge End doesn't (as far as I know) meet either of the general criteria described in Town (ie. being a market town or having a town or borough council as opposed to a parish council). Waggers 16:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I was wrong (I hadn't read the article!) - it's a town as it has a town council. Waggers 13:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Soggy Hedge End
The map image shows HE situated in the English Channel. and I don't know how to fix it. CanOfWorms 18:16, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hopefully fixed now. Waggers 13:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's better. Thanks. CanOfWorms 14:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

History of Village
I know this is anecdotal, but I was born in HE in 1959 and lived there until the 1980's. The article suggests that the reason for the expansion was due to M27 proximity. However, the rapid expansion started well before the M27 was even planned/built - the first large estate, the area bordered by northam road/ hobb lane / freegrounds road was filled by about 1973, and development continued on from there. I think it was more likely to have been a Hampshire county master plan. MNewnham 20:11, 2 November 2007 (UTC) I've amended this text as the growth of the area commenced in the 1960s and 1970s, well before the arrival of the motorway. The final section of the M27 between J5 and J7 only opened in (around?) the late 1980s. Keith House - 7 Feb 2010.