Alton, Hampshire

Alton is where the line from Waterloo runs out of track and hands you over to a steam railway that volunteers keep running for the pleasure of it. It brewed beer for most of its history, lost the last brewery when demand dried up, and took it with the calm of a regular whose local has changed hands. A Civil War battle here ended inside the parish church, and the bullet holes are still there, because nothing in Alton gets changed in a hurry.