Binsted

Coordinates: 51°09′51″N 0°53′55″W / 51.16405°N 0.89866°W / 51.16405; -0.89866

Binsted is a village and large civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The village is about four miles east of Alton. The nearest railway station is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) northeast of the village, at Bentley.

Binsted is also the name of a housing estate in the Wadsley Bridge suburb of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.

Church

The churchyard of the parish church, the Holy Cross, contains the grave of Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who spent his retirement in Isington near Alton. Also buried here is General Sir David Fraser GCB, OBE - a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.

History

Telegraph House, now a private home, was built by the Admiralty in 1825 as a semaphore relay station on the railway line linking London with Plymouth.

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