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.infobox-full-data{border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0.4em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedrow .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedrow .infobox-label{border:0;padding:0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-label{border-top:0;border-bottom:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}</style>Basingstoke (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbeɪzɪŋstoʊk/</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">BAY-zing-stohk</a>) is a town in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>, situated in south-central England across a valley at the source of the <a href="/wiki/River_Loddon" title="River Loddon">River Loddon</a> on the western edge of the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs" title="North Downs">North Downs</a>. It is the largest settlement in Hampshire without <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">city status</a>. It is located 30 miles (48 km) north-east of <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>, 48 miles (77 km) south-west of <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, 27 miles (43 km) west of <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford</a>, 22 miles (35 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a> and 20 miles (32 km) north-east of the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> and former capital <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a>. According to the 2016 population estimate, the town had a population of 113,776.<a href="#cite_note-3">[b]</a> It is part of the borough of <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_and_Deane" title="Basingstoke and Deane">Basingstoke and Deane</a> and part of the <a href="/wiki/Constituency#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">parliamentary constituency</a> of <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)">Basingstoke</a>. <table class="infobox ib-uk-place vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org nowrap">Basingstoke</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><a href="/wiki/Towns_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Towns in England">Town</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Basingstoke_montage.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Basingstoke_montage.png/275px-Basingstoke_montage.png" decoding="async" width="275" height="550" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Basingstoke_montage.png/413px-Basingstoke_montage.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Basingstoke_montage.png/550px-Basingstoke_montage.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="1200"></a><div>Clockwise from top: Town centre viewed from Churchill Way at night, The Anvil theatre, <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_railway_station" title="Basingstoke railway station">Basingstoke railway station</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Basingstoke" class="mw-redirect" title="St Michael's Church, Basingstoke">St Michael's Church</a>, high-rise flats in Crown Heights, and the AA Building (<a href="/wiki/Fanum_House" title="Fanum House">Fanum House</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style 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.hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>List of places</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Hampshire" title="List of places in Hampshire">Hampshire</a></dd></dl></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Basingstoke&params=51.2667_N_1.0876_W_type:city(114,000)_region:GB-HAM">51°16′00″N 1°05′15″W / 51.2667°N 1.0876°W / 51.2667; -1.0876</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Basingstoke is an old <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> expanded in the mid-1960s, as a result of an agreement between <a href="/wiki/London_County_Council" title="London County Council">London County Council</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hampshire_County_Council" title="Hampshire County Council">Hampshire County Council</a>. It was developed rapidly after the Second World War, along with various other towns in the United Kingdom, in order to accommodate part of the <a href="/wiki/London_overspill" title="London overspill">London 'overspill'</a> as perceived under the <a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Plan" title="Greater London Plan">Greater London Plan</a> in 1944.<a href="#cite_note-4">[2]</a> Basingstoke market was mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086 and it remained a small market town until the early 1960s. At the start of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, the population was little more than 13,000. It still has a regular market, but is now larger than Hampshire County Council's definition of a market town.<a href="#cite_note-ruralfaqs-5">[3]</a> Basingstoke became an important economic centre during the second half of the 20th century and houses the locations of the UK headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Motorola" title="Motorola">Motorola</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Automobile_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="The Automobile Association">The Automobile Association</a>, <a href="/wiki/De_La_Rue" title="De La Rue">De La Rue</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Life_Financial" title="Sun Life Financial">Sun Life Financial</a>, <a href="/wiki/ST_Ericsson" class="mw-redirect" title="ST Ericsson">ST Ericsson</a>, <a href="/wiki/GAME_(retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="GAME (retailer)">GAME</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barracuda_Networks" title="Barracuda Networks">Barracuda Networks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eli_Lilly_and_Company" title="Eli Lilly and Company">Eli Lilly and Company</a>, FCB Halesway part of <a href="/wiki/FCB_(advertising_agency)" title="FCB (advertising agency)">FCB</a>, BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions (the leasing arm of <a href="/wiki/BNP_Paribas" title="BNP Paribas">BNP Paribas</a> in the UK) and <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> Professional Solutions. It is also the location of the European headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/TaylorMade" title="TaylorMade">TaylorMade</a> Golf Company. Other industries include <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">IT</a>, telecommunications, insurance and electronics. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Etymology">1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#History">2 History</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Early_settlements">2.1 Early settlements</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Market_town">2.2 Market town</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Victorian_history">2.3 Victorian history</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Recent_history">2.4 Recent history</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Geography">3 Geography</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Physical_geography_and_geology">3.1 Physical geography and geology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Divisions_and_suburbs">3.2 Divisions and suburbs</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Demography">3.3 Demography</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Governance">4 Governance</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Facilities">5 Facilities</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Sport_and_leisure">5.1 Sport and leisure</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Musical_groups">5.2 Musical groups</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Media">5.3 Media</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Education">6 Education</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Transport">7 Transport</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Road">7.1 Road</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Railway">7.2 Railway</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Bus">7.3 Bus</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Cycling">7.4 Cycling</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Basingstoke_Canal">7.5 Basingstoke Canal</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#Religious_sites">8 Religious sites</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#International_relations">9 International relations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#Cultural_associations">10 Cultural associations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26"><a href="#Notable_people">11 Notable people</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27"><a href="#See_also">12 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28"><a href="#Notes">13 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="#References">14 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30"><a href="#External_links">15 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> The name Basingstoke (A.D 990; Embasinga stocæ,<a href="#cite_note-anglosaxons-6">[4]</a> <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday</a>; Basingestoches) is believed to have been derived from the town's position as the outlying, western settlement of Basa's people.<a href="#cite_note-placenames-7">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[c]</a> Basing, now <a href="/wiki/Old_Basing" title="Old Basing">Old Basing</a>, a village 2 miles (3 km) to the east, is thought to have the same etymology, and was the original Anglo-Saxon settlement of the people – <a href="/wiki/Basingas" title="Basingas">Basingas</a> – led by a tribal chief called Basa. Basing remained the main settlement until changes in the local church moved the religious base from St Marys Church, Basing, to the church in Basingstoke.<a href="#cite_note-oldbasingpc-9">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[7]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_settlements">Early settlements</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early settlements" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg/220px-Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg/220px-Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg/330px-Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg/440px-Holy_Ghost_Ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71774.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The remains of the 16th-century <a href="/wiki/William_Sandys,_1st_Baron_Sandys" title="William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys">Chapel of the Holy Ghost, Basingstoke</a></figcaption></figure> A Neolithic campsite of around 3000 BC beside a spring on the west of the town is the earliest known human settlement here, but the Willis Museum has flint implements and axes from nearby fields that date back to Palæolithic times. The <a href="/wiki/Hillfort" title="Hillfort">hillfort</a> at <a href="/wiki/Winklebury" title="Winklebury">Winklebury</a> (2 miles (3 km) west of the town centre), known locally as Winklebury Camp or Winklebury Ring<a href="#cite_note-winkleburyring-11">[8]</a> dates from the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> and there are remains of several other earthworks around Basingstoke, including a <a href="/wiki/Long_barrow" title="Long barrow">long barrow</a> near Down Grange. The site of Winklebury camp was home to Fort Hill Community School (this school has shutdown).<a href="#cite_note-hampshiretreasures-12">[9]</a> Nearby, to the west, Roman Road marks the course of a <a href="/wiki/Roman_roads_in_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman roads in Britain">Roman road</a> that ran from <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a> to <a href="/wiki/Silchester" title="Silchester">Silchester</a>. Further to the east, another Roman road ran from <a href="/wiki/Chichester" title="Chichester">Chichester</a> through the outlying villages of <a href="/wiki/Upton_Grey" title="Upton Grey">Upton Grey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mapledurwell" title="Mapledurwell">Mapledurwell</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Harrow_Way" title="Harrow Way">Harrow Way</a> is an Iron-age <a href="/wiki/Ancient_trackway" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient trackway">ancient route</a> that runs to the south of the town. The first recorded historical event in the area was the defeat of King <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelred_of_Wessex" class="mw-redirect" title="Æthelred of Wessex">Æthelred of Wessex</a> and his brother <a href="/wiki/Alfred_the_Great" title="Alfred the Great">Alfred the Great</a> at Old Basing by the Danes in 871. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Market_town">Market town</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Market town" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Michael%27s_Church,_Basingstoke.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG/220px-St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4500" data-file-height="3139"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 153px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG/220px-St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="153" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG/330px-St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG/440px-St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Basingstoke.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Basingstoke" class="mw-redirect" title="St Michael's Church, Basingstoke">St Michael's Church</a></figcaption></figure> Basingstoke is recorded as a weekly market site in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a>, in 1086, and has held a regular Wednesday market since 1214.<a href="#cite_note-marketsandfairs-13">[10]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">Civil War</a>, and the siege of <a href="/wiki/Basing_House" title="Basing House">Basing House</a> between 1643 and 1645, the town played host to large numbers of <a href="/wiki/Roundheads" class="mw-redirect" title="Roundheads">Parliamentarians</a>. During this time, <a href="/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Church,_Basingstoke" title="St. Michael's Church, Basingstoke">St. Michael's Church</a> was damaged whilst being used as an explosive store<a href="#cite_note-stmichaels-14">[11]</a> and lead was stripped from the roof of the Chapel of the Holy Ghost, Basingstoke<a href="#cite_note-hampshiretreasures2-15">[12]</a> leading to its eventual ruin. It had been incorporated in 1524, but was effectively out of use after the Civil War. The 17th century saw serious damage to much of the town and its churches, because of the great fires of 1601 and 1656. <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Cromwell</a> is thought to have stayed here towards the end of the siege of Basing House, and wrote a letter to the Speaker of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> addressed from Basingstoke.<a href="#cite_note-16">[13]</a> The cloth industry appears to have been important in the development of the town until the 17th century along with <a href="/wiki/Malting" title="Malting">malting</a>.<a href="#cite_note-vchonline-17">[14]</a> <a href="/wiki/Brewing" title="Brewing">Brewing</a> became important during the 18th and 19th centuries, and the oldest and most successful brewery was May's Brewery, established by Thomas and William May in 1750 in Brook Street.<a href="#cite_note-18">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[16]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Victorian_history">Victorian history</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Victorian history" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg/220px-Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="567"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg/220px-Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg/330px-Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg/440px-Simplicity_steam_roller.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wallis_%26_Steevens" title="Wallis & Steevens">Wallis & Steevens</a> Simplicity steam roller</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/London_and_South_Western_Railway" title="London and South Western Railway">London and South Western Railway</a> arrived in 1839 from London, and within a year it was extended to <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>. In 1848 a rival company, sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a> built a branch from <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a>. In 1854 a line was built to <a href="/wiki/Salisbury" title="Salisbury">Salisbury</a> by the London and South Western.<a href="#cite_note-railwayhistory-20">[17]</a> In the 19th century Basingstoke began to move into industrial manufacture, Wallis and Haslam (later <a href="/wiki/Wallis_%26_Steevens" title="Wallis & Steevens">Wallis & Steevens</a>), began producing agricultural equipment including <a href="/wiki/Threshing_machines" class="mw-redirect" title="Threshing machines">threshing machines</a> in the 1850s, moving into the production of stationary <a href="/wiki/Steam_engines" class="mw-redirect" title="Steam engines">steam engines</a> in the 1860s and then <a href="/wiki/Traction_engine" title="Traction engine">traction engines</a> in the 1870s.<a href="#cite_note-wallishistory-21">[18]</a> Two traders who opened their first shops within a year of each other in the town, went on to become household names nationally: Thomas <a href="/wiki/Burberry" title="Burberry">Burberry</a> in 1856 and Alfred Milward in 1857.<a href="#cite_note-22">[19]</a> Burberry became famous after he invented <a href="/wiki/Gabardine" title="Gabardine">Gabardine</a> and Milward founded the Milwards chain of shoe shops, which could be found on almost every high street until the 1980s.<a href="#cite_note-23">[20]</a> John May, a member of the brewery family, was several times mayor of the town. A benefactor to the town, he paid for the building of a drill hall in Sarum Hill for the use of the Hampshire Volunteers (later used as a cinema and then a furniture shop) and a wing for the Cottage Hospital in Hackwood Road. The drill hall was opened in 1885 and also used for concerts and exhibitions. He also bought a piece of open space that was about to be sold for housing and let it at a low rent to the Basingstoke Cricket Club. This cricket ground is still in use and is called "May's Bounty".<a href="#cite_note-24">[21]</a> Ordinary citizens were said to be shocked<a href="#cite_note-25">[22]</a> by the emotive, <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">evangelical</a> tactics of the <a href="/wiki/Salvation_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Salvation Army">Salvation Army</a> when they arrived in the town in 1880, but the reaction from those employed by the breweries or within the <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_licensing_laws_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom">licensed</a> trade quickly grew more openly hostile. Violent clashes became a regular occurrence.<a href="#cite_note-27">[d]</a> On Sunday 27 March 1881 troops were called upon to break up the conflict after the Mayor had read the <a href="/wiki/Riot_Act" title="Riot Act">Riot Act</a>. The riot and its causes led to questions in <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> and a period of notoriety for the town.<a href="#cite_note-28">[24]</a> The town was described as 'Barbarous Basingstoke' by one London newspaper in 1882 but by March 1882 the disturbances were dying down.<a href="#cite_note-29">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[26]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg/220px-Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="560"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 145px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg/220px-Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="145" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg/330px-Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg/440px-Thornycroft_steam_lorry.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>1902 Thornycroft steam lorry, in the <a href="/wiki/Milestones_Museum" title="Milestones Museum">Milestones Museum</a></figcaption></figure> In 1898 <a href="/wiki/John_Isaac_Thornycroft" title="John Isaac Thornycroft">John Isaac Thornycroft</a> began production of <a href="/wiki/Traction_engine#Steam_wagon" title="Traction engine">steam-powered lorries</a> in the town and <a href="/wiki/Thornycroft" title="Thornycroft">Thornycroft</a>'s quickly grew to become the town's largest employer.<a href="#cite_note-thornycrofthistory-31">[27]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recent_history">Recent history</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Recent history" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Basingstoke suffered very little bomb damage during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. A stick of German bombs did fall in the Church Square area on 16 August 1940. The same day bombs destroyed part of a row of houses in Burgess Road. Six people were killed in the raid.<a href="#cite_note-32">[28]</a> Overall, 13 civilians died from enemy action during the war in the town.<a href="#cite_note-33">[29]</a> After the war, the town had a population of 25,000.<a href="#cite_note-Basingstoke_census-34">[30]</a> As part of the London Overspill plan, along with places such as <a href="/wiki/Ashford,_Kent" title="Ashford, Kent">Ashford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swindon" title="Swindon">Swindon</a>, Basingstoke was rapidly developed in the late 1960s as an 'expanded town', in similar fashion to <a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes" title="Milton Keynes">Milton Keynes</a>. As the population increased, the town produced more figures of national importance, such as the art critic <a href="/wiki/Waldemar_Januszczak" title="Waldemar Januszczak">Waldemar Januszczak</a> and the actress <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Hurley" title="Elizabeth Hurley">Elizabeth Hurley</a>. Many office blocks and large estates were built, as well as a <a href="/wiki/Ring_road" title="Ring road">ring road</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Basingstoke_census-34">[30]</a> The shopping centre was built in phases. The first phase was completed by the 1970s and was later covered in the 1980s, and was known as The Walks. The second phase was completed by the early 1980s, and became <a href="/wiki/The_Malls,_Basingstoke" title="The Malls, Basingstoke">The Malls</a>. The third phase was abandoned and the site was later used to build <a href="/wiki/The_Anvil,_Basingstoke" title="The Anvil, Basingstoke">the Anvil</a> concert hall.<a href="#cite_note-The_Anvil_Arts-35">[31]</a> The central part of the shopping centre was rebuilt in 2002 and reopened as <a href="/wiki/Festival_Place" title="Festival Place">Festival Place</a>. This has brought a dramatic improvement to shoppers' opinions of the town centre.<a href="#cite_note-Basingstoke_census-34">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-centralbascommittee-36">[32]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg/170px-Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 227px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg/170px-Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg" data-width="170" data-height="227" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg/255px-Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg/340px-Festival_place_Basingstoke.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Festival_Place" title="Festival Place">Festival Place</a> shopping centre in August 2007</figcaption></figure> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Geography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> Situated in a valley through the <a href="/wiki/Hampshire_Downs" title="Hampshire Downs">Hampshire Downs</a> at an average elevation of 88 metres (289 ft)<a href="#cite_note-37">[33]</a> Basingstoke is a major interchange between <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newbury,_Berkshire" title="Newbury, Berkshire">Newbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andover,_Hampshire" title="Andover, Hampshire">Andover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alton,_Hampshire" title="Alton, Hampshire">Alton</a>, and lies on the natural <a href="/wiki/Trade_route" title="Trade route">trade route</a> between the southwest of <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. The area had been something of an interchange even in ancient times. It had been cut by a Roman roadway that ran from northeast to southwest, from Silchester towards Salisbury (Sorbiodunum), and by another Roman road that linked Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) in the north with Winchester (Venta Belgarum) to the south. These cross-cutting highways, along with the good agricultural land hereabouts, account for the many "Roman" villas in the area, mostly put up by Romanized native nobility (<a href="/wiki/Roman_villa" title="Roman villa">Roman villa</a>). Even more ancient was the Harrow Way, a Neolithic trackway, possibly associated with the ancient tin trade, that crossed all of southern England from west to east, from Cornwall to Kent, passing right through Andover and Basingstoke. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Physical_geography_and_geology">Physical geography and geology</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Physical geography and geology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Basingstoke has no single boundary that encompasses all the areas contiguous to its development. The unparished area of the town represents its bulk, but several areas popularly considered part of the town are separate parishes, namely <a href="/wiki/Chineham" title="Chineham">Chineham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rooksdown" title="Rooksdown">Rooksdown</a>, and parts of <a href="/wiki/Lychpit" title="Lychpit">Old Basing and Lychpit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[34]</a> The unparished area includes <a href="/wiki/Worting,_Hampshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Worting, Hampshire">Worting</a> which was previously a separate village and parish,<a href="#cite_note-39">[35]</a> extending beyond Roman Road and Old Kempshott Lane, which might otherwise be considered the town's 'natural' western extremity. Basingstoke is situated on a bed of <a href="/wiki/Cretaceous" title="Cretaceous">cretaceous</a> <a href="/wiki/Chalk_Group#England" title="Chalk Group">upper chalk</a> with small areas of clayey and loamy soil, inset with combined <a href="/wiki/Clay-with-Flints" title="Clay-with-Flints">clay and flint</a> patches. <a href="/wiki/Loam" title="Loam">Loam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alluvium" title="Alluvium">alluvium</a> <a href="/wiki/Holocene" title="Holocene">recent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">pleistocene</a> sediments line the bed of the river Loddon. A narrow line of tertiary <a href="/wiki/Reading_beds" class="mw-redirect" title="Reading beds">Reading beds</a> run diagonally from the northwest to the southeast along a line from <a href="/wiki/Sherborne_St_John" title="Sherborne St John">Sherborne St John</a> through Popley, <a href="/wiki/Lychpit" title="Lychpit">Daneshill</a> and the north part of <a href="/wiki/Old_Basing" title="Old Basing">Basing</a>. To the north of this line, encompassing the areas of Chineham and Pyotts Hill, is <a href="/wiki/London_clay" class="mw-redirect" title="London clay">London clay</a>, which has in the past allowed excavation for high quality brick and tile manufacture.<a href="#cite_note-40">[36]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Divisions_and_suburbs">Divisions and suburbs</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Divisions and suburbs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Basingstoke's expansion has absorbed much surrounding farmland and scattered housing, transforming it into <a href="/wiki/Housing_estate" title="Housing estate">housing estates</a> or local districts. Many of these new estates are designed as almost self-contained communities, such as Lychpit, Chineham, Popley, <a href="/wiki/Winklebury" title="Winklebury">Winklebury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oakridge,_Hampshire" title="Oakridge, Hampshire">Oakridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kempshott" title="Kempshott">Kempshott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighton_Hill" title="Brighton Hill">Brighton Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viables" title="Viables">Viables</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Ham" title="South Ham">South Ham</a>, Black Dam, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckskin_and_South_Ham_Extension&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buckskin and South Ham Extension (page does not exist)">Buckskin and South Ham Extension</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hatch_Warren" title="Hatch Warren">Hatch Warren</a>. The <a href="/wiki/M3_motorway_(Great_Britain)" title="M3 motorway (Great Britain)">M3</a> acts as a buffer zone to the south of the town, and the <a href="/wiki/South_West_Main_Line" title="South West Main Line">South West Main Line</a> constrains the western expansion, with a <a href="/wiki/Green_belt" title="Green belt">green belt</a> to the north and north-east. The villages of <a href="/wiki/Cliddesden" title="Cliddesden">Cliddesden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dummer,_Hampshire" title="Dummer, Hampshire">Dummer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sherborne_St_John" title="Sherborne St John">Sherborne St John</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oakley,_Hampshire" title="Oakley, Hampshire">Oakley</a>, although being very close to the town limits, are distinct parishes. Popley, Hatch Warren and <a href="/wiki/Beggarwood" title="Beggarwood">Beggarwood</a> saw rapid growth in housing in the mid to late 2000s.<a href="#cite_note-41">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Demography">Demography</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Demography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The population of Basingstoke increased from around 2,500 in 1801 to over 52,000 in 1971; the most significant growth occurring during the latter half of the 20th century.<a href="#cite_note-visionofbritian-43">[39]</a> The borough of Basingstoke was merged with other local districts in 1974 to form the borough of <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_and_Deane" title="Basingstoke and Deane">Basingstoke and Deane</a>, and census data from that point covers the whole borough. Figures published for the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2011">UK census in 2011</a> for the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane give a population of 167,799 and a population density of 2.7 persons per hectare—only about half the national figure.<a href="#cite_note-nationalstatistics-44">[40]</a> The number of women slightly exceeded that of men, and a slight increase in the percentage of residents over 65 was also noted.<a href="#cite_note-nationalstatistics1-45">[41]</a> Among other findings in 2001 were that 74.33 per cent felt they were in good health, 50.98 per cent were economically active full-time employees (over 10 per cent higher than the national average) and 48.73 per cent were buying their property with a mortgage or loan (almost 10 per cent higher than the national average).<a href="#cite_note-nationalstatistics-44">[40]</a> Amongst the working population, 64.2 per cent travelled less than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to work.<a href="#cite_note-nationalstatistics2-46">[42]</a> The biggest percentage of employees, 17.67 per cent, worked in real estate, renting and business activities.<a href="#cite_note-nationalstatistics3-47">[43]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Governance" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> Basingstoke is part of a two-tier local government structure and returns county councillors to <a href="/wiki/Hampshire_County_Council" title="Hampshire County Council">Hampshire County Council</a>. It is the third largest settlement in the <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_county" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceremonial county">ceremonial county</a>, but when the cities of Southampton and <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a> attained <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a> status in 1998, Basingstoke became the largest settlement in the <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">county</a> administered by the county council.<a href="#cite_note-48">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[45]</a> <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_and_Deane_Borough_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council">Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council</a> is the lower-tier <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_England" title="Local government in England">local authority</a> for the town, and has its offices in the town centre. <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_and_Deane_local_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="Basingstoke and Deane local elections">Elections to the council</a> take place in 3 out of every 4 years. Under the <a href="/wiki/Town_twinning" class="mw-redirect" title="Town twinning">town twinning</a> scheme, the local council have twinned Basingstoke with <a href="/wiki/Alen%C3%A7on" title="Alençon">Alençon</a> in France,<a href="#cite_note-Archant_twinning-50">[46]</a> <a href="/wiki/Braine-l%27Alleud" title="Braine-l'Alleud">Braine-l'Alleud</a> in Belgium, and <a href="/wiki/Euskirchen" title="Euskirchen">Euskirchen</a> in Germany.<a href="#cite_note-51">[47]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Facilities">Facilities</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Facilities" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg/220px-The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="471"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 162px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg/220px-The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="162" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg/330px-The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg/440px-The_Willis_Museum_-_%27Top_of_Town%27_-_geograph.org.uk_-_772453.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The former town hall, now the <a href="/wiki/Willis_Museum" title="Willis Museum">Willis Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG/220px-The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1191" data-file-height="832"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 154px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG/220px-The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="154" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG/330px-The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG/440px-The_Malls_Basingstoke.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>View of <a href="/wiki/The_Malls,_Basingstoke" title="The Malls, Basingstoke">The Malls</a> from <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_railway_station" title="Basingstoke railway station">Basingstoke railway station</a> before the 2011 refurbishment</figcaption></figure> The Top of Town is the historic heart of Basingstoke, housing the Willis Museum<a href="#cite_note-52">[48]</a> in the former <a href="/wiki/City_and_town_halls" class="mw-redirect" title="City and town halls">Town Hall</a> building (rebuilt 1832) as well as several locally run shops and the <a href="/wiki/Marketplace#Marketplaces_and_street_markets" title="Marketplace">market place</a>. Basingstoke is home to two theatrical organisations: the Haymarket, which is situated in the former <a href="/wiki/Corn_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Corn Exchange">Corn Exchange</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Anvil,_Basingstoke" title="The Anvil, Basingstoke">The Anvil</a>,<a href="#cite_note-53">[49]</a> which is near the railway station. The <a href="/wiki/Willis_Museum" title="Willis Museum">Willis Museum</a> was founded and directed by Alderman George W. Willis, a local clocksmith, who served as Mayor of Basingstoke in 1923–24. Willis established the museum in 1931 with much public support, and built its holdings up into a major collection on local history, with a particularly extensive collection of prehistoric implements and of antique clocks and watches. His association with the expanding museum continued for forty years. The museum's central location today is where, once upon a time, <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a> and her sister used to go to dances, and a statue of Jane Austen was installed outside the museum in 2017, on the 200th anniversary of her death.<a href="#cite_note-54">[50]</a> Although ostensibly set in Hertford, Austen's novel <a href="/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice" title="Pride and Prejudice">Pride and Prejudice</a>, written in 1797, is thought to have been based on her view of Basingstoke society two centuries ago. The major shopping area is <a href="/wiki/Festival_Place" title="Festival Place">Festival Place</a>, which opened in October 2002. Festival Place gave a huge boost to the town centre, transforming and replacing what was the former The Walks Shopping Centre and the New Market Square.<a href="#cite_note-proud-55">[51]</a> Aside from a wide range of shops, there is also a range of cafés and restaurants as well as a large multiscreen <a href="/wiki/Vue_(cinema)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vue (cinema)">Vue</a> cinema (formerly <a href="/wiki/Ster_Century" title="Ster Century">Ster Century</a> from Festival Place's opening until their takeover in 2005; the pre-existing Vue in the Leisure Park was sold to <a href="/wiki/Odeon_Cinemas" title="Odeon Cinemas">Odeon</a>).<a href="#cite_note-56">[52]</a> The Malls is a shopping area linked by a gateway entrance to the rail station. It had declined since the opening of Festival Place and the closure of its <a href="/wiki/Allders" title="Allders">Allders</a> department store. The leasehold was purchased in 2004 by the <a href="/wiki/St._Modwen_Properties" title="St. Modwen Properties">St Modwen</a> development group in partnership with the Kuwait property investment company Salhia Real Estate, with provision for redevelopment<a href="#cite_note-mallssold-57">[53]</a> The redevelopment of The Malls started in late 2010. A clear roof canopy was installed to protect the Malls from bad weather while still allowing natural light and air in. The Malls has been repaved and new street furniture installed. The redevelopment was completed in the last quarter of 2011. The redevelopment work was carried out by <a href="/wiki/Wates_Group" title="Wates Group">Wates Group</a> using a variety of subcontractors.<a href="#cite_note-58">[54]</a> A large <a href="/wiki/Waitrose" title="Waitrose">Waitrose</a> store is located near the station. It was built in November 2015 as part of the redevelopment of Basing View. A <a href="/wiki/John_Lewis_(department_store)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Lewis (department store)">John Lewis at home</a> store which was part of the same redevelopment closed down in 2021. The town's nightlife is split between the new Festival Square, and the traditional hostelries at the Top of Town, with a few local community <a href="/wiki/Pub" title="Pub">pubs</a> outside the central area. The town has four nightclubs, two in the town itself, one on the east side and one 2 miles (3.2 km) out to the west. The Basingstoke Sports Centre is located in Portchester Square. The sports centre has a subterranean swimming pool, <a href="/wiki/Sauna" title="Sauna">sauna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacuzzi" title="Jacuzzi">jacuzzi</a> and steam room. Above ground there is a gym, aerobics studios, squash courts and main hall. There is also an Ofsted-registered crèche.<a href="#cite_note-59">[55]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport_and_leisure">Sport and leisure</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Sport and leisure" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg/220px-Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg/220px-Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg/330px-Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg/440px-Eastrop_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_72043.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Eastrop_Park" title="Eastrop Park">Eastrop Park</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Fanum_House" title="Fanum House">Fanum House</a> in the background</figcaption></figure> Outside the town centre there is a leisure park featuring the Aquadrome swimming pool, which opened in May 2002.<a href="#cite_note-60">[56]</a> Also located at the leisure park are an ice rink, a bowling alley, an indoor sky-diving centre with ski and surf machines, a <a href="/wiki/Bingo_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bingo (UK)">Bingo</a> club and a ten-screen <a href="/wiki/Odeon_Cinemas" title="Odeon Cinemas">Odeon</a> (formerly Vue prior to the takeover of the Ster Century cinema in Festival Place, and before that, Warner-Village) <a href="/wiki/Multiplex_(movie_theater)" title="Multiplex (movie theater)">cinema</a>, as well as a restaurant and fast food outlets. The leisure park is home to the <a href="/wiki/Milestones_Museum" title="Milestones Museum">Milestones Museum</a>, a living history museum which contains a network of streets and buildings based on the history of <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>. Basingstoke has a <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> club, <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_Town_F.C." title="Basingstoke Town F.C.">Basingstoke Town F.C.</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_R.F.C." title="Basingstoke R.F.C.">Basingstoke Rugby Football Club</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_Bison" title="Basingstoke Bison">Basingstoke Bison</a> <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> team. Basingstoke also has a swimming team,<a href="#cite_note-61">[57]</a> known as the Basingstoke Bluefins and an American Flag Football Team known as the Basingstoke Zombie Horde.<a href="#cite_note-62">[58]</a> Further sporting organisations in the area include Basingstoke & Mid Hants Athletic Club,<a href="#cite_note-63">[59]</a> Basingstoke Demons Floorball Club, Basingstoke Volleyball Club, Basingstoke Bulls Korfball Club and <a href="/wiki/Lasham_Airfield" title="Lasham Airfield">Lasham Gliding Society</a>. The home ground of Basingstoke & North Hants Cricket Club, Mays Bounty, was until 2000 used once a season by <a href="/wiki/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Hampshire County Cricket Club">Hampshire County Cricket Club</a>.<a href="#cite_note-64">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[63]</a> As of 2011, Basingstoke has a <a href="/wiki/Roller_derby" title="Roller derby">roller derby</a> league and team, the Basingstoke Bullets. Due to difficulty finding a suitable venue, the team practice in nearby <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch,_Hampshire" title="Whitchurch, Hampshire">Whitchurch</a>. Basingstoke is also the home of Rising Phoenix Cheer, a successful competitive Allstar <a href="/wiki/Cheerleading" title="Cheerleading">Cheerleading</a> programme for athletes from age 5 upwards, training at Aldworth school.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Musical_groups">Musical groups</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Musical groups" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Basingstoke has a wide diversity for musical groups ranging from <a href="/wiki/Brass_band" title="Brass band">brass bands</a> to <a href="/wiki/Symphony_orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="Symphony orchestra">symphony orchestras</a>.<a href="#cite_note-The_Anvil_Associates-68">[64]</a> The Basingstoke Concert Band is a traditional wind band which has now been in existence for more than 35 years.<a href="#cite_note-The_Anvil_Associates-68">[64]</a> The band was started in 1977 by Lawrie Shaw when Brighton Hill Community School opened, where he was the first headteacher. Shaw formed the band as an evening class for amateur wind players and it was then known as the Brighton Hill Centre Band.<a href="#cite_note-Basingstoke_Concert_Band-69">[65]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Media" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> There are two local newspapers – the <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_Gazette" title="Basingstoke Gazette">Basingstoke Gazette</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_Observer" class="mw-redirect" title="Basingstoke Observer">Basingstoke Observer</a>. The town is also covered by the broadsheet newspaper <a href="/wiki/Hampshire_Chronicle" title="Hampshire Chronicle">Hampshire Chronicle</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Basingstoke_Relay_Station-70">[66]</a> Local TV coverage is provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_South" title="BBC South">BBC South</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_Meridian" title="ITV Meridian">ITV Meridian</a>, with <a href="/wiki/BBC_London" title="BBC London">BBC London</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_London" title="ITV London">ITV London</a> also received in the town. Basingstoke is served by two regional radio stations. <a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_Radio_Berkshire_%26_North_Hampshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest Hits Radio Berkshire & North Hampshire">Greatest Hits Radio Berkshire & North Hampshire</a>, serving North Hampshire and parts of <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Heart_South" title="Heart South">Heart South</a>, previously broadcast from <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a>. <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Berkshire" title="BBC Radio Berkshire">BBC Radio Berkshire</a> is available in the town. The town has coverage from <a href="/wiki/Digital_radio" title="Digital radio">digital radio</a>; the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, Independent National and Now Reading <a href="/wiki/Multiplexing" title="Multiplexing">multiplexes</a> can be received in the town,<a href="#cite_note-71">[67]</a> and the outskirts can receive London and South Hampshire stations as well.<a href="#cite_note-72">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[69]</a> The BBC national stations and DAB coverage is enhanced by a small relay just south of the town centre.<a href="#cite_note-Basingstoke_Relay_Station-70">[66]</a> The local radio Station is HHCR - Basingstoke's Community Radio, an internet-based broadcaster opened on 3 June 2019 by Cllr Diane Taylor Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane.<a href="#cite_note-74">[70]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Education" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Basingstoke_and_Deane" title="List of schools in Basingstoke and Deane">List of schools in Basingstoke and Deane</a></div> The Holy Ghost School (subsequently <a href="/wiki/Queen_Mary%27s_School_for_Boys,_Basingstoke" title="Queen Mary's School for Boys, Basingstoke">Queen Mary's School for Boys</a>) was a state funded <a href="/wiki/Grammar_school" title="Grammar school">grammar school</a> operating in Basingstoke for four centuries, from 1556 until 1970, producing nationally recognised alumni such as Revd. <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_White" title="Gilbert White">Gilbert White</a> (1720–1793), a pioneer naturalist, and the famed cricket commentator, <a href="/wiki/John_Arlott" title="John Arlott">John Arlott</a> (1914–1991). In modern times education in Basingstoke has been co-ordinated by <a href="/wiki/Hampshire_County_Council" title="Hampshire County Council">Hampshire County Council</a>. Each neighbourhood in the town has at least one primary school, while secondary schools are distributed around the town on larger campuses. Basingstoke has two large <a href="/wiki/Further_education" title="Further education">further education</a> colleges: a <a href="/wiki/Sixth_form_college" title="Sixth form college">sixth form college</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queen_Mary%27s_College,_Basingstoke" title="Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke">Queen Mary's College</a> (QMC) and <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_College_of_Technology" title="Basingstoke College of Technology">Basingstoke College of Technology</a> (BCoT). The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Winchester" title="University of Winchester">University of Winchester</a> had a campus in Basingstoke (Chute House Campus) which closed in July 2011; it had offered full-time and part-time university courses in subjects including childhood studies, various management pathways, community development and creative industries. <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth_University" title="Bournemouth University">Bournemouth University</a>'s health and social care students can work on placement at the <a href="/wiki/North_Hampshire_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="North Hampshire Hospital">North Hampshire Hospital</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Bournemouth_University_HSC-75">[71]</a> The hospital only caters for midwifery students.<a href="#cite_note-Midwife_Students_from_Bournemouth_Uni-76">[72]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Transport" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Basingstoke_station.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Basingstoke_station.jpg/217px-Basingstoke_station.jpg" decoding="async" width="217" height="133" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="476" data-file-height="292"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 217px;height: 133px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Basingstoke_station.jpg/217px-Basingstoke_station.jpg" data-width="217" data-height="133" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Basingstoke_station.jpg/326px-Basingstoke_station.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Basingstoke_station.jpg/434px-Basingstoke_station.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_railway_station" title="Basingstoke railway station">Basingstoke railway station</a>, as seen from Alençon Link in 2005</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Road" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Basingstoke is situated close to junctions 6, 7 and 8 of the <a href="/wiki/M3_motorway_(Great_Britain)" title="M3 motorway (Great Britain)">M3 motorway</a>, which skirts the town's south-eastern edge, linking the town to London, and to Southampton and the south-west. The central area of the town is encircled by The Ringway, a <a href="/wiki/Ring_road" title="Ring road">ring road</a> constructed in the 1960s, and is bisected east to west by the A3010 (Churchill Way). The <a href="/wiki/A33_road" title="A33 road">A33</a> runs north-east to Reading and the <a href="/wiki/M4_motorway" title="M4 motorway">M4 motorway</a>, and south-west to Winchester.<a href="#cite_note-pophamairfield-77">[73]</a> The <a href="/wiki/A30_road" title="A30 road">A30</a> runs east to Hook and west to Salisbury. The A303 to <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a> and the West Country begins a few miles south-west of Basingstoke, sharing the first few miles with the A30. On the M3, there is a flyover, which passes over the slip road to A303, near Junction 8. The A339 runs south-east to Alton and north-west to Newbury. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railway">Railway</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Railway" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/South_West_Main_Line" title="South West Main Line">South West Main Line</a> runs east and west through the centre of the town and <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_railway_station" title="Basingstoke railway station">Basingstoke railway station</a>, linking Basingstoke to <a href="/wiki/London_Waterloo_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Waterloo railway station">London Waterloo</a>, Winchester, Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth. The <a href="/wiki/West_of_England_line" title="West of England line">West of England line</a> links Basingstoke to <a href="/wiki/Salisbury" title="Salisbury">Salisbury</a> and to Exeter. The <a href="/wiki/Reading%E2%80%93Basingstoke_line" title="Reading–Basingstoke line">Reading–Basingstoke line</a> runs north-east to <a href="/wiki/Reading_railway_station" title="Reading railway station">Reading</a> and is part of an important through route for longer distance services to Birmingham and the North. The town was the terminus of the defunct <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_and_Alton_Light_Railway" title="Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway">Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway</a>. Current rail services from Basingstoke are operated by <a href="/wiki/South_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Western Railway (train operating company)">South Western Railway</a>, <a href="/wiki/CrossCountry" title="CrossCountry">CrossCountry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)" title="Great Western Railway (train operating company)">Great Western Railway</a>. The Reading-Basingstoke Line runs parallel to Chineham Business Park, Vyne Park, the suburb of Chineham and Taylors Farm. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bus">Bus</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Bus" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg/220px-Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg/220px-Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg/330px-Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg/440px-Stagecoach_Dart_35211_in_Jazz_Livery.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Stagecoach Dart 35211 in Jazz Livery</figcaption></figure> Most bus services in the town operate from Basingstoke bus station. The majority are provided by the <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach_Group" title="Stagecoach Group">Stagecoach Group</a> through their <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach_in_Hampshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Stagecoach in Hampshire">Stagecoach in Hampshire</a> sub-division.<a href="#cite_note-78">[74]</a> Basingstoke Community Transport and Communities First Wessex run some smaller routes.<a href="#cite_note-79">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[76]</a> A peak-time service is provided by <a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley_Buses" title="Thames Valley Buses">Thames Valley Buses</a> between Chineham Business Park and the railway station.<a href="#cite_note-Courtney-81">[77]</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Express_Coaches" title="National Express Coaches">National Express</a> offers direct coach services to London and Southampton from the bus station. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cycling">Cycling</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Cycling" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Separating cyclists from other road traffic was not part of the remit of the 1960s town redevelopment and, in 1996, the perception of provision for cyclists was very poor.<a href="#cite_note-transportprov-82">[78]</a> Following the Basingstoke Area Cycling Strategy in 1999<a href="#cite_note-cyclestrat-83">[79]</a> an extensive cycle network was developed,<a href="#cite_note-cyclemap-84">[80]</a> mainly utilising on-road routes or off-road routes that run parallel with and directly alongside roads. Basingstoke was linked to Reading on the <a href="/wiki/National_Cycle_Network" title="National Cycle Network">National Cycle Network</a> route 23 in May 2003; the route was extended south to Alton and Alresford in April 2006. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basingstoke_Canal">Basingstoke Canal</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Basingstoke Canal" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_Canal" title="Basingstoke Canal">Basingstoke Canal</a> started at a canal basin, roughly where the cinema in Festival Place is located. From there the canal ran alongside the <a href="/wiki/River_Loddon" title="River Loddon">River Loddon</a> following the line of Eastrop Way. The old canal route passes under the perimeter ring road and then follows a long loop partly on an embankment to pass over small streams and water meadows towards <a href="/wiki/Old_Basing" title="Old Basing">Old Basing</a>, where the route goes around the ruins of <a href="/wiki/Basing_House" title="Basing House">Basing House</a> and then through and around the eastern edge of Old Basing. It followed another loop to go over small streams near the Hatch public house (a lot of this section was built over when constructing the M3) and headed across fields on an embankment towards <a href="/wiki/Mapledurwell" title="Mapledurwell">Mapledurwell</a>. The section of the canal from <a href="/wiki/Up_Nately" title="Up Nately">Up Nately</a> to the western entrance of the <a href="/wiki/Greywell_Tunnel" title="Greywell Tunnel">Greywell Tunnel</a> still exists and is a nature reserve; there is water in the canal and the canal towpath can be walked. A permissive footpath at the western entrance to the tunnel allows walkers to access public footpaths to get to the eastern entrance of the tunnel. The limit of navigation is about 500m east of the Greywell Tunnel. The renovated sections of the canal can then be navigated east towards <a href="/wiki/West_Byfleet" title="West Byfleet">West Byfleet</a> where it joins the <a href="/wiki/Wey_Navigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Wey Navigation">Wey Navigation</a>, which itself can be navigated to the River <a href="/wiki/Thames" class="mw-redirect" title="Thames">Thames</a> at <a href="/wiki/Weybridge" title="Weybridge">Weybridge</a>. Aims to reconnect Basingstoke with the surviving sections of the Basingstoke Canal have been beset with difficulties,<a href="#cite_note-lastfive_miles-85">[81]</a> and actual restoration of a canal link is impossible. The Basingstoke Canal Society aspire to re-establish the route of the lost section of the canal as closely as possible with a footpath and cycleway.<a href="#cite_note-86">[82]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Religious_sites">Religious sites</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Religious sites" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> church of <a href="/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Church,_Basingstoke" title="St. Michael's Church, Basingstoke">St. Michael's</a> is located west of <a href="/wiki/Festival_Place" title="Festival Place">Festival Place</a>. The chancel dates from 1464,<a href="#cite_note-87">[83]</a> and the south chapel may be older.<a href="#cite_note-:0-88">[84]</a> The nave and aisles were added fifty years later by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Foxe" title="Richard Foxe">Richard Foxe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Winchester" title="Bishop of Winchester">Bishop of Winchester</a>. The Memorial Chapel at the north-east corner of the church was completed in 1921.</li> <li>The ruined Chapel of the Holy Ghost, north of the railway station, has not been a place of worship for four centuries, an effect of the Reformation. It was built by the first Lord Sandys, beginning in 1524, when King Henry VIII issued a charter of incorporation. The west tower of a 13th-century building also survives.<a href="#cite_note-:0-88">[84]</a> It is surrounded by an ancient (as well as a more modern) cemetery; <a href="/wiki/William_Sandys,_1st_Baron_Sandys_of_the_Vyne" class="mw-redirect" title="William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne">William, Lord Sandys</a> himself lies buried in the chapel with his wife.</li> <li>In 1902, the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Holy_Ghost_Church,_Basingstoke" title="Holy Ghost Church, Basingstoke">Holy Ghost Church</a> was built by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Scoles" title="Alexander Scoles">Alexander Scoles</a>, named after the old chapel. It is a Grade II listed building.<a href="#cite_note-89">[85]</a></li> <li>The Church of St Mary, Eastrop is an old church, enlarged in 1912.<a href="#cite_note-:1-90">[86]</a></li> <li>All Saints' Church was built in 1915, designed by Temple Moore.<a href="#cite_note-:1-90">[86]</a></li> <li>St Peter's Church was built in 1964-5, designed by Ronald Sims and is in a housing estate built in the 1960s.<a href="#cite_note-91">[87]</a></li> <li>In 2014, a group named Basingstoke Community Churches covered an area of six churches in the town.<a href="#cite_note-92">[88]</a> There are also an Assemblies of God church called Wessex Christian Fellowship, two Roman Catholic churches, St. Bede's and St. Joseph's, and churches of other denominations.<a href="#cite_note-93">[89]</a></li> <li>In 2019, Gateway Church Basingstoke began a partnership with <a href="/wiki/Christians_Against_Poverty" title="Christians Against Poverty">Christians Against Poverty</a> (CAP) to launch a Debt Centre in Basingstoke.<a href="#cite_note-94">[90]</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="International_relations">International relations</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: International relations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> Basingstoke is <a href="/wiki/Sister_city" title="Sister city">twinned</a> with: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Braine-l%27Alleud" title="Braine-l'Alleud">Braine-l'Alleud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wallonia" title="Wallonia">Wallonia</a>, Belgium</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alen%C3%A7on" title="Alençon">Alençon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a>, France</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euskirchen" title="Euskirchen">Euskirchen</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a>, Germany</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="Cultural_associations">Cultural associations</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Cultural associations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> "Basingstoke" is a code word in <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a>'s 1887 comic opera <a href="/wiki/Ruddigore" title="Ruddigore">Ruddigore</a>, used by the "bad baronet" after he reforms, to remind his bride "Mad Margaret" of their plan to live lives of boring respectability.<a href="#cite_note-95">[91]</a> In 1895, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a> referred to Basingstoke as "Stoke Barehills" in <a href="/wiki/Jude_the_Obscure" title="Jude the Obscure">Jude the Obscure</a>. Basingstoke's <a href="/wiki/North_Hampshire_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="North Hampshire Hospital">North Hampshire Hospital</a> was one of two hospitals used for the filming of <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>'s hit comedy <a href="/wiki/Green_Wing" title="Green Wing">Green Wing</a>.<a href="#cite_note-96">[92]</a> <a href="/wiki/George_Formby" title="George Formby">George Formby</a>'s film, <a href="/wiki/He_Snoops_to_Conquer" title="He Snoops to Conquer">He Snoops to Conquer</a> was partly shot in the town in 1944 and in 1974 the <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a> produced a documentary here called Basingstoke – Runcorn: British New Towns. The former Park Prewett Mental Hospital was the setting for the novel Poison in the Shade (1953), by Eric Benfield, a local author and sculptor who worked as an art therapist at that hospital. <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Wilde" title="Patrick Wilde">Patrick Wilde</a>'s 1993 play, <a href="/wiki/What%27s_Wrong_with_Angry%3F" title="What's Wrong with Angry?">What's Wrong with Angry?</a>, is set in Basingstoke. It was later adapted into the 1998 film, <a href="/wiki/Get_Real_(film)" title="Get Real (film)">Get Real</a>, which was filmed at various locations around Basingstoke.<a href="#cite_note-getreal-97">[93]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(11)"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Notable people" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-11 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-11"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Basingstoke" title="List of people from Basingstoke">List of people from Basingstoke</a></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(12)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-12 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-12"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basingstoke_(video_game)" title="Basingstoke (video game)">Basingstoke (video game)</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(13)"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-13 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-13"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> Population figure is an estimate for 2010, and includes only the unparished area, not the surrounding area. </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> In 2012 the town proper had a population of 84,275, but this does not include the large suburban villages of <a href="/wiki/Chineham" title="Chineham">Chineham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Old_Basing" title="Old Basing">Old Basing</a> or <a href="/wiki/Lychpit" title="Lychpit">Lychpit</a>, which are now considered as outer suburbs of the town. </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> The <a href="/wiki/List_of_generic_forms_in_British_place_names" class="mw-redirect" title="List of generic forms in British place names">List of generic forms in British place names</a> shows a toponymic interpretation of the various <a href="/wiki/Old_English_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old English language">Old English</a> elements within the names Basing and Basingstoke. Bas is taken to be from the personal name 'Basa', ingas as 'people of' and stoc as 'dependent farmstead' or 'secondary settlement'. </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a> In summarising to Magistrates at the trial of those members of the public said to have rioted against the Salvationists, defence counsel stated that Until this body known as the Salvation Army was formed here, the number of summonses which had come before the Magistrates was comparatively unknown. They now had a large number of assault cases to hear. The army perfectly well knew that their conduct was leading to disturbances in the town. The case against the defendants was dismissed.<a href="#cite_note-26">[23]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(14)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Basingstoke&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-14 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-14"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-hantsgovfactsandfigures-1"><a href="#cite_ref-hantsgovfactsandfigures_1-0">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160106004111/http://www3.hants.gov.uk/factsandfigures/population-statistics/pop-estimates/small-area-pop-stats.htm">"Hampshire County Council, Small Area Population Forecasts. 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data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%DA%A9" title="بیزینقاستوک – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بیزینقاستوک" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%8A%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA" title="Μπεϊσινγκστόουκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μπεϊσινγκστόουκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%DA%A9" title="بیزینگ‌استوک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بیزینگ‌استوک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A0%EC%9D%B4%EC%8B%B1%EC%8A%A4%ED%86%A0%ED%81%AC" title="베이싱스토크 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="베이싱스토크" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A7" title="בייסינגסטוק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בייסינגסטוק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Бэйсингсток – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Бэйсингсток" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beizingstoka" title="Beizingstoka – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Beizingstoka" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83" title="باسينجستوك – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="باسينجستوك" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF" title="ベイジングストーク – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ベイジングストーク" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BA" title="Бејзингстоук – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Бејзингстоук" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%B8%D2%A3%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BA" title="Бейзиңстоук – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Бейзиңстоук" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%88%DA%A9" title="بیزنگسٹوک – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="بیزنگسٹوک" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Basingstoke" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target">Volapük</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B2%9D%E8%BE%9B%E6%96%AF%E6%89%98%E5%85%8B" title="貝辛斯托克 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="貝辛斯托克" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">中文</a></li></ul> </section> </div> <div 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