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Basingstoke is an old market town expanded in the mid-1960s, as a result of an agreement between London County Council and Hampshire County Council. 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 London 'overspill' as perceived under the Greater ...
The village of Old Basing is part of the civil parish of Old Basing and Lychpit [5] which in turn is part of the Basing ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. [6] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.
The old Basingstoke Town Council had bought a large eighteenth century house called Goldings at 5 London Road in 1922 and converted it to become municipal offices. Following the creation of the new council in 1974 a new office building incorporating a council chamber was built west of Goldings, opening in 1976 and now being called Deanes.
Old Basing was first settled around 700 by an Old English tribe known as the Basingas, who give the village its name (the meaning is "Basa's people"). [5] It was the site of the Battle of Basing on 22 January 871, when a Danish army defeated Ethelred of Wessex. It is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Basingstoke Rural District [46] Basingstoke and Deane: Braishfield: 684 [47] 8.97 Romsey and Stockbridge Rural District [12] Test Valley: Bramdean and Hinton Ampner: 629 [48] 14.62 Winchester Rural District [29] Winchester: Bramley: 4,233 [49] 11.90 Basingstoke Rural District [46] Basingstoke and Deane: Bramshaw: 677 [50] 28.43 New Forest Rural ...
The Basingstoke Union Workhouse and added workhouse infirmary, stood where the Hampshire Clinic stands, a private hospital. [3] [5] [6] East is the older third of Old Basing and the ruins of medieval Basing House (and Tudor/Jacobean house, north) below an old citadel with remnant ramparts and defensive walls. [5] [7]
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.
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 .