Fleet has expanded in the past few decades with new residential areas being built at Ancells Farm, Zebon Copse ( in neighbouring Church Crookham ) and Elvetham Heath.

Completed in 2008, Elvetham Heath is one of the UK's largest new housing developments, and will add some 5, 000 inhabitants to Fleet's population, bringing its total population up to around 36, 000, a 20 % increase in less than a decade.

Areas and suburbs of the town are Pondtail, Ancells Park and Elvetham Heath.

In April 2010 some of the responsibilities of Hart District Council were devolved to three new parish councils: Fleet Town Council, Elvetham Heath Parish Council and Church Crookham Parish Council.

* Elvetham Heath Primary School

Elvetham Heath was built on reclaimed pine plantation / heathland between the M3 motorway and the London-Southampton railway line, north of Fleet town centre.

Elvetham Heath serves as a commuter area to local towns ; Basingstoke some to the west, Reading is to the north and London is to the northeast.

* Elvetham Heath Official site of Elvetham Heath Developments, a trading division of Persimmon Homes Limited

* Elvetham Heath Primary School Site for Elvetham Heath's primary school

* Hart. gov. uk Site covering Elvetham Heath and the nature reserve

* Elvetham Heath Forum Community website for Fleet and Elvetham Heath

* On The Heath Local community website for Elvetham Heath

* Elvetham Heath, Hampshire

The parish includes the joined village of Phoenix Green to the south and surrounding hamlets of Dipley, West Green, Elvetham and Hartfordbridge, as well as large wooded areas such as Yateley Heath Wood and part of Hazeley Heath.

This attracted a number of gentry, particularly retired army officers, who moved to the area bounded by Fleet Road, Elvetham Road and Reading Road North and laid the foundations of what was to become known locally as " The Blue Triangle ".

Eamonn Holmes married his long term partner Ruth Langsford at Elvetham Hall in Hampshire on 26 June 2010.

* Hotel Hampshire Site of the nearest village and location of the historical hall-Elvetham Hall-now Elvetham Hotel

His planning was often elaborate: Henry-Russell Hitchcock called his mansion at Elvetham Park in Hampshire " so complex in its composition and so varied in its detailing that it quite defies description ".

His second wife ( her first marriage ) was Barbara ( 1716 – 1782 ), only daughter and heiress of Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham, Hampshire, by his spouse Barbara ( died 1724 ), daughter of Henry Yelverton, 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn, 1st Viscount Longueville.

In 1831, the village ( excluding Elvetham and Hartfordbridge ) had a population of 1139.

* Elvetham Hall now known as The Elvetham Hotel was a stately home rebuilt by Teulon in 1860.

* Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet ( 1748 – 1798 ), was created Baron Calthorpe in 1796 having assumed the additional surname of Calthorpe upon inheriting, in 1788, the Elvetham and Norfolk estates of his maternal uncle, Sir Henry Calthorpe, K. B ..

" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).

Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

* 1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.

The earliest longbow known from England, found at Ashcott Heath, Somerset, is dated to 2665 BC, but no longbows survive from the period when the longbow was dominant ( c. 1250 – 1450 AD ), probably because bows became weaker, broke and were replaced, rather than being handed down through generations.

A photograph of the Newton Heath team, taken in 1892, is believed to show the players wearing red-and-white quartered jerseys and blue shorts.

Heath went on to become a professor at Caltech and O ' Brien joined Texas Instruments and is now at MEMtronics.

Predating Goldberg, the corresponding term in the UK was, and still is, " Heath Robinson ", after the English illustrator with an equal devotion to odd machinery ( although Heath Robinson's creations did not have the same emphasis on the sequential or chain reaction element ).

* 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

is founded, as Small Heath Alliance, in Small Heath, Birmingham, England.

* September 14 – The first penalty kick is awarded in a football ( soccer ) match ; John Heath scores it for the Wolverhampton Wanderers.

* The Trial of Penenden Heath is thought to have been held, with an important ruling regarding land rights subsequent to the Norman Conquest of England.

In 1459, hostilities resumed at the Battle of Blore Heath, where Margaret is said to have witnessed her commander, James Touchet, Lord Audley, defeated by a Yorkist army under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.

It is believed he was born at the top of Putney Hill, on the edge of Putney Heath.

From the records it is unclear if Wilson or Heath knew of the bugging, and no recorded conversations were retained by MI5 so possibly the bugs were never activated.

It is believed the aircraft had handling problems for it was not delivered to Martlesham Heath until early in 1936, long after the competition had been decided in favour of the Vickers Type 253.

In the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the character of Tony, played by Heath Ledger, is found hanging ( alive ) under Blackfriars Bridge, described by director Terry Gilliam as " an homage to Roberto Calvi ".

The Patriot is a 2000 American historical war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, and Heath Ledger.

A supporting vote is nonetheless passed and against his father's wishes, Benjamin's eldest son Gabriel ( Heath Ledger ) joins the Continental Army.