** Watercress darter, Etheostoma nuchale.

The county is home to the Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge.

One engine has been preserved on the Bluebell Line, in Sussex, while the station was dismantled and reconstructed at New Alresford, on the Watercress Line, in Hampshire.

* The Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge is a small National Wildlife Refuge protecting the endangered watercress darter.

It was rebuilt at Alresford, on the Mid Hants Watercress Railway in Hampshire.

Railways hosting the event include the Battlefield Line Railway in Leicestershire, the Watercress Line in Hampshire and the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway in Oxfordshire.

Watercress can be sold in supermarkets inside sealed plastic bags, containing a little moisture and lightly pressurised to prevent crushing of contents.

Watercress is grown in a number of counties of the United Kingdom, most notably Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset, although the first commercial cultivation was along the River Ebbsfleet in Kent grown by William Bradbery ( horticulturist ) in 1808.

Watercress crops grown in the presence of manure can be a haven for parasites such as the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica.

Watercress is mentioned in the Talmud as being able to stop bleeding, when mixed with vinegar.

Watercress is a known inhibitor of the cytochrome P450 CYP2E1, which may result in altered drug metabolism for individuals on certain medications such as chlorzoxazone.

* A ninth example 12049 ( renumbered from 12082 ) is preserved at the Watercress Line in Hampshire.

New Alresford has shops, a tourist information centre, a central conservation area, two tea rooms and is a terminus as with Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam worked heritage railway at Alresford railway station.

During the Watercress Festival, the town welcomes visitors and opens a number of attractions and places of interest.

The Watercress Line is the marketing name of the Mid-Hants Railway, a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running from New Alresford to Alton where it connects to the National Rail network.

Electrification of the line from London to Alton in 1937 meant that the Watercress Line was no longer part of a through route ; it became necessary to change at Alton.

* HeritageRail. co. uk – Watercress Line photographs.

It was by-passed to the west by the London and South Western Railway ( the surviving main line ) and to the north by the Alton, Alresford and Winchester Railway, part of which survives to the east as the Watercress Line.

The Springhead / Ebbsfleet Valley area was used for the growing of Watercress much of which was supplied to the London market.

Species noted in 2007 include the Woodruff, Bird cherry, Primrose, Common violet, Oak, Stitchwort, Golden male ( Scaly ) fern, Bugle, Opposite-leaved Golden saxifrage, Bluebell, Dog's mercury, Broad buckler fern, Watercress, Lady fern, Male shield fern, Kidney vetch, Woodrush, Woodsedge, blackthorn, hawthorn, Marsh marigold, Foxglove, Sweet Cicely, Herb Robert, Red campion, Bistort, Ribwort plantain, Water avens, Wood avens, Moschatel, elm, alder, and many liverworts.

In August 2009, plans were announced for Taika Waititi to adapt his book Wild Pork and Watercress ( 1986 ) into a film.

Alresford, near Winchester, is now considered the Watercress Capital of the World with its annual festival bringing in an excess of 15, 000 visitors ( to the extent that a preserved steam railway line is named after the famous local crop ).

Alresford is at the south-western end of the Watercress Line ( officially the Mid-Hants Railway ).

The town is famed for its production of watercress and is universally known as ' The Watercress Capital of the World '.

A section from Alton to Alresford is preserved as the Watercress Line but the final gap from Alresford to Winchester is unlikely ever to be reinstated due to housing having been built on the trackbed.

* 76017-Is on the Watercress Line and is currently under overhaul.

Wheeler NWR is charged with the administration of four other National Wildlife Refuges including Fern Cave, Key Cave, Sauta Cave, and the Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge.

The only waterwheel still operating on the Land Yeo is at Watercress Farm.

The section of this line between Alton and New Alresford is now the Watercress heritage railway, having been closed to passengers by British Rail in 1973.

The station is the terminus for two railway lines ; the Alton Line which runs to Brookwood and onto London Waterloo and the Mid Hants Watercress Railway, which runs to Alresford.

Platform three is used by the Mid Hants Watercress Railway.

The Mid Hants Watercress Railway in Hampshire is so named on account of its use for transporting watercress to London from local chalk streams.

* Cardamine rotundifolia-American Bittercress, American watercress, Mountain Watercress

The railway was often nicknamed ' The Watercress Line ' due to the fact many communities on the line grew watercress.

In the United States in the 1940s, New Market, Alabama was known locally as the " Watercress Capital of the World ".

Watercress was the most important type of vegetable grown in Potong Pasir.

The elm tree eventually succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease and was felled in May 1977. the children in Wraxall School were given the day off to see the spectacle of the tree being craned and transported to Watercress Farm where it was burned as part of a large barbecue.

She was one of the youngest persons to exhibit at the Royal Academy ; in 1823, at the age of 10, she submitted the Watercress Woman.

Freight trains operated by EWS and steam trains from the Watercress Line ( see below ) are often seen on the Alton Line.

Steam Locomotives, restored and operated by The Watercress Line, run regular services between and, stopping at Medstead and Four Marks railway station.

* John Porter – Ossory ( 1888 ), Watercress ( 1892 ), Matchmaker ( 1895 ), Shaddock ( 1896 ), Manners ( 1899 ), Simon Dale ( 1900 ), Rydal Head ( 1904 ), Plum Centre ( 1905 )