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A Brief History

Fleet is unusual for a town of its size in that it is not on a major trunk road. This is because it developed after the construction of the London and South Western Railway, which opened in 1840. Many people came down from London to skate on Fleet Pond during the winter, and the town grew as a market town. There are thus few very old buildings in Fleet, with much of the modern town formed around Victorian buildings. As in many parts of Britain, there was a building boom in the period between the First World War and Second World War. Fleet also contains structures built in the 1960s like the parade of shops on the left of the picture below.

The end of Fleet's main high street Fleet has expanded in the past few decades with new housing estates being built at Ancells Farm, Zebon Copse (in neighbouring Church Crookham), and Elvetham Heath. Due for completion by 2007, Elvetham Heath is one of the UK's largest new housing developments, and will add some 6,000 to Fleet's population, bringing its total population up to around 36,000, a 20% increase in less than a decade.

Road - Fleet can be reached from London and Southampton via the M3 motorway. Its main road, Fleet Road, runs through the town centre from west to east.

Rail- Fleet station is on the London Waterloo station to Southampton main line. The train service is run by South West Trains (formerly Network South East). Journey time to Waterloo is about 50 minutes. Express trains do the journey in under 40 minutes.

Hart is a local government district in Hampshire, England, named after the River Hart. Its council is based in Fleet. It was formed on April 1, 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the urban district of Fleet, and the Hartley Wintney Rural District.

Hart District is one of the richest and least deprived areas in the whole of the United Kingdom. In the Indices of Deprivation 2004, Hart was ranked at 354 out of 354 local authorities in England, where 1 was the most deprived area and 354 the least deprived, meaning Hart is the least deprived area in England. Hart District's population also has one of the highest rates of life expectancy in the UK.

In December 2006, Sport England published a survey which revealed that residents of Hart were the 5th most active in England in sports and other fitness