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Basingstoke has a wide diversity for musical groups ranging from brass bands to symphony orchestras. [64] The Basingstoke Concert Band is a traditional wind band which has now been in existence for more than 35 years. [64] The band was started in 1977 by Lawrie Shaw when Brighton Hill Community School opened, where he was the first headteacher.
Basingstoke and Deane is a local government district with borough status in Hampshire, England. The main town is Basingstoke, where the council is based. The district also includes the towns of Tadley and Whitchurch, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The modern district was created in 1974, initially being called ...
Front View of St. Michael's. St. Michael's is a Grade I listed building.It is largely of 16th-century construction in stone and flint.As with many British churches, there is evidence of much alteration made to the building over the centuries [1] The south porch of the church was built in 1539, and a War Memorial Chapel installed in 1920.
Milestones Museum of Living History is a museum located on the Leisure Park in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.Milestones is made up of a network of streets that have been recreated according to those found in Victorian and 1930s Hampshire.
Settlement patterns suggest the existence of a town at Basingstoke attached to the nearby oppidum of Winklebury prior to the Roman conquest of Britain. [2] In the early Roman era it was the nearest town to Calleva Atrebatum, lay between two roads leading to Venta Belgarum and Noviomagus Reginorum and was populated predominantly by the Atrebates.
Basing House is located in the village of Old Basing, approximately one mile east of the centre of the town of Basingstoke, in the north of the English county of Hampshire. The house is situated close to the upper reaches of the River Loddon .
The condition of Basingstoke Church, the walls of which are indented with shot on every side, but especially on the south, makes it almost certain that (as is known to have been the case at Alton and at Basing itself) the sacred building afforded a refuge to the troops of one or other army, while their enemies assaulted it.
Rooksdown is the name of the locality and is shown as Rooks Down in the Ogilby strip maps of 1675. [1] It is also the name of the old Roman road that passes through the Parish, and of the now demolished Rooksdown Hospital, originally Rooksdown House (the Private annexe of Park Prewett Hospital), which once occupied the north west corner of the parish [2] at the junction of Kingsclere Road and ...