[4] The location of Butts Junction can still be seen from trains on the Watercress Line, with an embankment tailing off southwards towards Farringdon.
The Butts is a triangle of open land which in medieval times was used for archery practice,[7] leading to its name in reference to the archery butts formerly located at the site.
[8][9] Butts Junction was just 20 chains (0.25 miles, 0.40 km) from the former Treloar's Hospital Platform railway station,[10][11] and 1.05 miles (1.69 km) to Alton railway station[12] located northeast of the junction.
The railway crosses Butts Road at the junction over a bridge which was replaced with the opening of the line to Basingstoke.
[13] The junction was home to an LSWR type 4 signal box which was built on the site in June 1903.