Aldershot

American  

[awl-der-shot] / ˈɔl dərˌʃɒt /

noun

1. a city in NE Hampshire, in S England, SW of London.

2. a large military training center there.

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Aldershot British  

/ ˈɔːldəˌʃɒt /

noun

1. a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Every day, thousands of passengers heading south west on trains leaving Aldershot station pass a cluster of solar panels nestled by the tracks.

From BBC

"On a sunny afternoon, if you are catching a train through Aldershot, a little bit of the energy for that train will come from those solar panels," says Leo Murray, co-founder and chief executive of Riding Sunbeams, a start-up aiming to use renewable energy resources for rail electrification projects.

From BBC

Riding Sunbeams built the Aldershot array in 2019 .

From BBC

At Aldershot, the track was already electrified – it was a case of plugging solar panels in to that existing system.

From BBC

Mr Murray says that, after the Aldershot project, he had hoped Riding Sunbeams would go on to build a full-scale commercial pilot.

From BBC