Winchester and the Test Valley

Business events in Andover

Six dates coming up, mostly on Wednesdays at 07:30, £3.96 to £14.06.

Checked 19 Oct6 coming up

No photograph of Andover we have checked yet, so its initial stands in.

Daytime.Three of the 6 dates start 10 till 4, most often on Wednesdays at 07:30.
£3.96 to £14.06.Every date here has a ticket price, shown on its row.
Three rooms.One organiser runs them; White Hart Hotel, Andover has the most dates.

What’s on in Andover

Three a day, the rest folded under each day. Narrow it to a time of day.

Wednesday 18 Nov

About Andover

Test Valley's largest town: a market town on the River Anton close to the A303, with three strategic business parks and a town centre the borough council is reshaping to a masterplan.

Test Valley Borough Council's draft Local Plan 2042 describes Andover as "a historic market town on the River Anton" and the borough's largest settlement. The 2021 Census put the Andover built-up area at 48,480 people. By coincidence that is exactly the figure the ONS gives for the Winchester built-up area, so the two biggest towns in Winchester and the Test Valley are, on this measure, the same size.

Business on the A303

The road is the reason Andover's employment land looks the way it does. The council's plan lists Walworth Business Park, East and West Portway Business Park and Andover Business Park as the town's strategic employment sites, "reflecting its location on the A303 and wider connectivity" to Basingstoke, Salisbury and the south-west. Much of the town's recent housing has gone into large extensions on the eastern side, at Picket Piece, East Anton and Picket Twenty.

Across Test Valley as a whole, the ONS counted 5,800 enterprises in its 2026 UK Business Counts. That is a borough figure, so it covers Romsey, Stockbridge and the villages as well as Andover. Most are small: 5,105 of them had fewer than ten staff, and only 20 had 250 or more.

A town centre in transition

The borough has an adopted masterplan for Andover town centre, which its 2024 town centres paper says is already being delivered. It sets out projects mixing independent shops, leisure, food and drink, arts and culture, public services and education, with homes, workspace, green space and space for events. If you know the centre from a few years ago, expect parts of it to look different.

The country round about

The plan describes the land around Andover as highly rural, with the protected North Wessex Downs across the northern edge of the borough. There are a few larger villages, such as Charlton, that provide local services. Ludgershall, just over the county line in Wiltshire, is close enough that the council treats it as having working links with the town.

Meeting in Andover

We have pages for three Andover venues: White Hart Hotel, Basepoint Andover and The Town Mills. Other towns nearby with their own pages include Stockbridge and, along the A303, Basingstoke. New to networking groups? Choosing a networking group covers the main kinds.