Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.
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13 Facts About Petersfield
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Petersfield is situated in the valley of the Western Rother, on the Lower Greensand at the northern edge of the South Downs.
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Petersfield Heath is a Site of Nature Conservation Interest.
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Heathland is very rare throughout Europe and Petersfield Heath is a typical heathland mosaic of micro habitats.
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Petersfield Heath is at one end of "The Serpent Trail", a 65-mile walk through heath and downland of Hampshire and West Sussex to Haslemere.
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Petersfield has an Arts and Crafts Society which was formed in 1934.
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Petersfield was once home to the world's first Teddy Bear Museum, which opened in 1984.
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Petersfield had a 700-seat cinema, the Savoy, that opened in the late 1930s.
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Petersfield has cycling groups including a local CTC group and The Petersfield Mountain Bikers.
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Petersfield is part of the parliamentary constituency of East Hampshire.
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Petersfield stood at a major crossroads until the A3 London to Portsmouth road was bypassed to the west of the town.
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Actors Jamie Campbell Bower, Arthur Brough, Tamsin Egerton, Ellis Jones, Alex Lawther and Miranda Hart were all born or live in Petersfield, as are the BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers actors Charles Collingwood and Edward Kelsey.
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