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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.
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]
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.
The club made another appearance in the FA Cup first round in 2006–07, beating League One club Chesterfield 1–0 at Saltergate before losing 3–1 to local rivals Aldershot in a second round replay. [9] The Hampshire Senior Cup was won again in 2007–08 with a 1–0 win over Farnborough in the final.
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.
It was founded by the local clockmaker, George W. Willis, as the Basingstoke Museum in 1931. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Renamed after the founder in 1956, the Willis Museum was expanded to cover the town and surrounding area's history, from the Upper Cretaceous Age through to the development experienced during the 1960s and 1970s.
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.
The name "Queen Mary's" was later transferred to the Queen Mary's College, a Sixth Form College, in Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke. The school was thereupon renamed The Vyne School, in commemoration of the links that both schools had to The Vyne , a property owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty , former ...