Piers · South East England
A
A is a pier in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Best time of year
- Summer
- Nearest railway station
- Hamble · 1.7 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
A is a seaside pier on the coast of Hampshire, South-East England — Victorian pleasure architecture on stilts, still standing. The site is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest, and is a Ramsar wetland of international importance. It sits within the Hamble Valley parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Hamble, about 1.7 km away. Postcode area SO31.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Hythe to Calshot Marshes SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary SSSI
- Ramsar wetland: Solent & Southampton Water
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
A (minuscule: a) is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced as in say), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey |a| and single-storey |ɑ|. The latter form is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type.
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Background
History
The earliest known ancestor of A is aleph—the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet—where it represented a glottal stop , as Phoenician only used consonantal letters. In turn, the ancestor of aleph may have been a pictogram of an ox head in proto-Sinaitic script influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs, styled as a triangular head with two horns extended. When the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for a letter representing a glottal stop—so they adapted the sign to represent the vowel , calling the letter by the similar name alpha. In the earliest Greek inscriptions dating to the 8th century BC following the Greek Dark Ages, the letter rests upon its side. However, in the…
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- Coordinates
- 50.8598, -1.3126
- County
- Hampshire
- District
- Eastleigh
- Parish
- Hamble-le-Rice
- Postcode
- SO31 4PL
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hamble Valley
- Nearest railway station
- Hamble — 1.7 km
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is A?
- A is in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SO31 4PL), in the parish of Hamble-le-Rice.
- Is A a protected site?
- Yes — A is part of the Hythe to Calshot Marshes SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is A free to visit?
- Yes, A is free to enter.
- How do I get to A?
- The nearest railway station is Hamble, about 1.7 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SO31 4PL.