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The club was established in 1896 by a merger of Aldworth United and Basingstoke Albion. [3] They joined the Hampshire League in 1901, and when the league was split into geographical divisions in 1903, were placed in the North Division. [4]
Cricket has been played in Basingstoke since at least 1817, likely at Basingstoke Common, [4] with cricket first being played at May's Bounty, then known as The Folly, in 1855. [5] [6] The current Basingstoke and North Hants Cricket Club was founded in 1865, with the club playing at May's Bounty since its formation. [3]
The leisure park is home to the Milestones Museum, a living history museum which contains a network of streets and buildings based on the history of Hampshire. Basingstoke has a football club, Basingstoke Town F.C., the Basingstoke Rugby Football Club and the Basingstoke Bison ice hockey team.
In 1992 the club successfully applied to move up to the Combined Counties League where they maintained a steady mid-table position but, unable to develop their basic Whiteditch Playing Fields home they dropped out of the league after four seasons to rejoin the Chiltonian League in 1996 - a year later the club was renamed again as RS Basingstoke.
Thornycroft Athletic was a works football club based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. For many years they played in the Hampshire League but were forced to close in 1972 - just three years after winning the title, following the loss of their ground.
AFC Basingstoke moved to play at the old Portals Athletic ground near Overton, and after finishing sixth in Division Two in 1998–99, were accepted into the new Premier Division. However, the club's search for a new ground failed and after the loss of a sponsor the club withdrew from the competition in the summer of 2000 and folded.
The former Basingstoke Golf Club [15] lies to the north west of the Beggarwood estate. The club was established in 1907 in the grounds of Kempshott House. Kempshott House was demolished in the 1960s, to make way for the Kempshott estate and the M3 motorway. The land is now being developed for approximately 1000 homes.
Basingstoke Rugby Football Club is a Rugby Union club based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in southern England. The men's 1st XV currently plays in Counties 1 Hampshire - a league at level 7 of the English rugby union system - following their promotion from Counties 2 Hampshire at the end of the 2023–24 season.