Hamble-le-Rice
Hamble-le-Rice is a relatively small village near Southampton, U.K. It is probably best known for being an aircraft training centre during the Second World War for planes including the Spitfire, the Lancaster and the Wellington. It is also a yachting mecca and during the summer the whole village is packed with people out enjoying the water. The village is also home to a BP fuel terminal. Despite the fact that the airfield has long since been overgrown and sold off to house developers Persimmion, Hamble retains a large interest in the aviation industry with the British Aerostructures factory in Kings Avenue being the single largest employer in the area, the workforce far outnumbering that of the BP terminal. The shift patterns of the Aerostructures factory are known well to Hamble residents as Hamble Lane (the only road out of Hamble) is often clogged with traffic.
External linksHamble.net
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