The name Fleet was probably derived from the Norman French word La Flete meaning a stream or shallow water-a reference to the Fleet Pond from which fish had been taken for the monks in Winchester in Medieval times.

The railway company promoted Fleet Pond for a destination for day excursions and many people came down from London to skate on the Pond during the winter.

The Fleet Pond Nature Reserve is a notable beauty spot on the northern edge of the town.

The settlements in area, particularly Fleet, experienced a minor population bloom in 1840 when a railway station was built at nearby Fleet Pond ; while this was primarily for the benefit of day-trippers, many Londoners enjoyed the area so much that they decided to settle there.

The Origins and History of Fleet Pond

It is probable that, by the time of the Norman Conquest, lands to the north of Fleet Pond were already farmed.

Many bishopric ponds were created in the second half of the 12th century, thus Fleet Pond could have been in existence by 1200.

The problem with this is that the present Pondtail is another example of a migrating place name, which was indeed situated at the “ tail ” of the present Fleet Pond.

At that time, Fleet Pond was.

This included all of the heathland to the north-east, east and south-east of Fleet Pond.

On 7 April 1836, the London and Southampton Railway Company purchased, for £ 50, “ the Fleet Mill Pond and certain allotments of wasteland belonging to Fleet Farm ”, from the Dean and Chapter of Winchester.

The fame thus bestowed upon Fleet Pond led, in 1951, to it becoming one of the first Sites of Special Scientific Interest to be notified in Hampshire.

( By 1984, Fleet Little Pond had lost its ecological interest and The Flash and been filled in.

In 1972, the then Fleet Urban District Council purchased the Pond, together with adjacent heathland and woodland, from the Ministry of Defence.

The Fleet Pond Society was founded four years later ( April 1976 ) and, at the Society ’ s suggestion, the land was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 1977.

Overall, the wildlife in Fleet Pond is truly significant and a habitat to many animals as well.

Fleet Pond Society was formed in 1976 as a result of the concerns of local people at the deteriorating condition of the Fleet Pond nature reserve.

Under the Local Government Act 1894 many of the duties that had previously been shouldered by the ecclesiastical parishes were transferred to new civil parish and Crookham, Fleet and Crondall each gained an elected parish council.

The signal for Hampshire on 96. 1 FM from Rowridge on the Isle of Wight is less clearly audible north of Winchester than the transmissions from other BBC Local Radio stations, so that the north Hampshire town of Basingstoke is officially looked after by BBC Radio Berkshire ( on 104. 1 FM from Hannington ), while towns such as Aldershot, Farnborough and Fleet in the north-east of the county are served by BBC Surrey via their Guildford transmitter on 104. 6 FM.

M33, the third major galaxy of the Local Group to be examined in the Star Fleet Universe.

* Private and Local Government Fleet Rule.

Local pubs are the Black Bull on Fleet Street, the Chequers Hotel on High Street, the Horse & Groom on High Street, the Mansion House on High Street, the Crown Hotel on West Street and the String of Horses on Boston Road South ( currently up for sale ).

Centred around Loch Fleet, three miles south of Golspie, is a National Nature Reserve with wading dirds, wildfowl and seals basking on the sandbanks.

He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.

The following are part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet but have been activated and are pre-positioned.

She acquired her title in 1959 when her husband, Vice-Admiral Guy Sayer was knighted as the Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet.

Callaghan joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman in World War II from 1942 where he served in the East Indies Fleet and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in April 1944.

Some of the mothballed vessels were transferred to foreign navies while others were relocated to other Reserve Fleet locations.

The battleship USS Missouri, site of the Japanese surrender treaty signing that ended World War II, was assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet at PSNS in 1955.

He reported on board on July 3, 1931, and served in that destroyer tender until his transfer to the Fleet Reserve on August 10, 1939.

Many vessels struck from the NVR are transferred to the Navy Inactive Fleet or to the United States Maritime Administration ( MARAD ) to become part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet.

Some continue limited operation in the Ready Reserve Fleet.

A year later, he received the concurrent command of Terry ( Destroyer No. 25 ) and the 2nd Division, Reserve Torpedo Flotilla, U. S. Atlantic Fleet.

* National Defense Reserve Fleet, a reserve of U. S. merchant ships

: Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1 ( Navy Reserve )

: Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 53 ( Navy Reserve )

: Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 48 ( Navy Reserve )

This also brought Fleet Air Wing Four to an end on 1 April 1970, leaving Patrol Squadron SIXTY-NINE ( VP-69 ), a Naval Air Reserve squadron, as the sole remaining maritime patrol squadron at NAS Whidbey.

When World War I began in 1914, all the cadets at Dartmouth were quickly mobilized as midshipmen in the Reserve Fleet.

Following the war, Garden Island became a holiday resort again and the home of the RAN Reserve Fleet.

Additional long-range airlift aircraft are available during national emergencies through the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, a fleet of commercial aircraft committed to support the transportation of military forces and material in times of crisis.

: Civil Reserve Air Fleet