House surveys in Hampshire

Hampshire's housing includes the densely built Victorian terraces of Portsmouth and Southampton, the historic city of Winchester, military towns at Aldershot and Farnborough, and London overspill expansion at Basingstoke and Andover from the 1960s. Chalk underlies much of the county, with clay and sands in the south and north-east. Coastal flood risk around the Solent, groundwater flooding in chalk valleys and Second World War bomb damage rebuilds are recurring themes.