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  Basingstoke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basingstoke is a large town in the county of Hampshire in the south of England.
Basingstoke is situated in the north of Hampshire, in the district of Basingstoke and Deane.
Basingstoke railway station is the junction between the South Western Main Line railway, built by the London and South Western Railway, and the Reading to Basingstoke line, built by the Great Western Railway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basingstoke   (1711 words)

  
 Basingstoke: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Basingstoke is a new town new town quick summary:
Basingstoke railway station is a railway station in the town of basingstoke in the county of hampshire in england....
Basingstoke is the home of the Milestones Museum[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] which features a network of streets and buildings based on the history of Hampshire.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/basingstoke.htm   (2465 words)

  
 Hampshire Constabulary -> Force Organisation -> BCUs -> Basingstoke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Basingstoke Police Basic Command Unit covers an area of 245 square miles and serves a population of 152,600.
Over half of the population live within Basingstoke town itself and the remaining residents live in the surrounding small towns, such as Whitchurch, and numerous villages.
The BCU headquarters is based in Basingstoke town and the BCU also benefits from police stations in Whitchurch and Tadley.
www.hampshire.police.uk /BDiv.htm   (443 words)

  
 Basingstoke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Basingstoke is situated in north Hampshire and is built on the sides of the river Loddon.
Basingstoke has always had a large number of bars and taverns in the town as it was once a stop over town on the stage coach run to and from London and was also famous in the area for it's brewing.
Basingstoke is a pleasant place to live,if you want to learn more about the history of Basingstoke then please use the menu at the top of the page.
www.maxlove.co.uk /basingstoke.htm   (446 words)

  
 Basingstoke local Area information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first grant of a fair to Basingstoke was made by Henry VI in 1449, when an annual fair was to be held around the Chapel of the Holy Ghost from the Wednesday in Whitsun week to the following Friday.
A charter of James 1, dated 1622, gave Basingstoke a new administrative and judicial system, and a further charter of 1641 was to remain in force until the reorganization of the borough system in 1835.
In 1961 Basingstoke was designated a London overspill area, and the population rose from 26,000 to 60,000 by 1973.
www.hants.gov.uk /localpages/north_east/basingstoke/attract.html   (632 words)

  
 Basingstoke NOT Boringstoke
The Libertine's Carl Barat was born in Basingstoke.
Basingstoke railway station's gents' toilet was bombed by the IRA in 1993, and the macheted to death body of a Buddhist monk was found in a suitcase left there.
Basingstoke is known to CBers as 'Doughnut City' due to the large number of Roundabouts.
www.basingstoke.me.uk   (5286 words)

  
 Basingstoke and Deane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basingstoke and Deane is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England.
Other settlements include Bramley, Tadley, Kingsclere, Oakley, Whitchurch and the hamlet of Deane, some 7 miles from Basingstoke.
The borough was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the borough of Basingstoke, Basingstoke Rural District and Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basingstoke_and_Deane   (121 words)

  
 Basingstoke's Railway History, by Chris Tolley
Even so, within a few miles of Basingstoke, lines were built to carry cargo from biscuits to bombs to bricks (both collecting and delivering!) This history aims to record the development, and the factors behind it.
Each of the lines passing through Basingstoke is covered in the text, and there are extra sections which cover the general history of the railways over the past century and three quarters, the military railways in the neighbourhood and the background to the changes which Privatisation have brought to the railways.
Whilst Basingstoke is not a particularly large town, it has a complex railway history, which could not be completely covered in a short talk.
web.ukonline.co.uk /cj.tolley/cjt-brhc.htm   (728 words)

  
 Basingstoke Lions Club | Community Service
A Basingstoke man, Chris Moon, who lost his right arm and leg in an anti-personnel mine explosion, has walked from from John O'Groats to Lands End in just 25 days (5th June to 29th June 2004) walking the equivalent of two marathons every day in order to raise money for the Leonard Cheshire Foundation.
Basingstoke has supported this project for a number of years by sponsoring a team of Basingstoke lads who until last season played under the auspices of Basingstoke Town Football Club.
Due to a change of policy at Basingstoke Town the Under 16s Team has moved lock and stock and barrel to Aldershot Town but the boys are still very proud of their Basingstoke roots.
www.basingstoke-lions.org.uk /community.html   (935 words)

  
 Basingstoke Canal - BC News 203   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The New Basingstoke Canal Company was free to fell trees as and when it saw fit, without reference to the local tree Officer or English Nature and without worrying overmuch about what the public thought, but not a lot of systematic tree management was done during the restoration period.
Your comments comparing the funding the Basingstoke Canal receives with that of other waterways was something i was unaware of but I'm reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb to the effect that "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step".
During one of the trips on the Basingstoke by the Woking Recreational Boating for the Handicapped Group in the "Maggie G", crew member Colin Ray spotted a swan distressfully entangled in a fishing line and also embedded in the waterside reeds.
www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk /bcnews203.htm   (7776 words)

  
 ufindus.com - Plumbers in Basingstoke
Basingstoke began as a Saxon village with a population of around 200 (this was considered quite large) by the time of Domesday Book in 1086.
In 1392 Basingstoke was overcome by a fire, by regained its strength and in 1449 was granted the right to hold a fair.
Basingstoke is now a large and successful town, and it is primarily a financial centre.
basingstoke.ufindus.com /Plumbers   (1250 words)

  
 Basingstoke business news from The Basingstoke Gazette
THE future of Basingstoke and Deane is again on a knife-edge after the Conservatives narrowly failed to gain an overall majority in Thursday's borough council elections.
MORE than 100 staff are set to leave their jobs at a Basingstoke depot after a major shake-up was ordered in a bid to preserve the future of the site.
BASINGSTOKE College of Technology will be offering new and improved facilities and training for retail and logistics students after becoming a new centre of vocational excellence.
www.thisishampshire.net /hampshire/basingstoke/news   (448 words)

  
 Basingstoke Area Business Directory, Events Calendar and Local Road Map.
BasingBusiness aims to provide a quality service to Businesses in Basingstoke and customers alike, whether you are buying or selling, trying to find out where things are, where to eat or stay.
Basingstoke is located approximately 40 miles south-west of London, in Northern Hampshire, and is conveniently situated in the M3 / M4 corridor.
Traditionally regarded as an extension of the greater London area, Basingstoke is now developing it's unique identity as a town in it's own right, while also offering the convenience of being within a short distance of London and Reading and is also the gateway to the south of England.
www.basingbusiness.com   (624 words)

  
 BASINGSTOKE - Online Information article about BASINGSTOKE
Basingstoke is a town of great antiquity, and excavations have brought to See also:
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encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BASINGSTOKE.html   (1060 words)

  
 Basingstoke Canal - Curiosities
The last attempt to reach Basingstoke was made by Mr A.J.Harmsworth aboard his narrowboat "Basingstoke " late in 1913, but the trip was abandoned at Basing through lack of water....
Although the Basingstoke Canal opened with 29 locks it was found that a further lock was necessary to raise the water level by 12 inches (30 cm) to assist navigation through the Greywell Tunnel and along the five miles of canal to Basingstoke.
This lock was constructed in 1797 (3 years after the canal opened to Basingstoke) and its remains can be found on the approach to the eastern end of the tunnel.
www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk /curious.htm   (713 words)

  
 Basingstoke's Railway History in Maps
The maps below are centred on Basingstoke, with Reading in the north and Winchester in the south, these being the nearest large towns connected by rail.
The line between Reading and Basingstoke was originally promoted by the Berks and Hants Railway, which, as noted previously, was absorbed by the GWR before the service began to operate.
In addition to the passenger platform, there was also a siding for delivery of coal, which was on quite a steep gradient (at this point the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway is on an embankment, but the boiler to which the coal was taken was at ground level).
web.ukonline.co.uk /cj.tolley/cjt-brhm.htm   (2943 words)

  
 Basingstoke Trainers: Tadley Practice
Peter is also Scheme Organiser for the VTSHO scheme at Basingstoke.
Basingstoke has good leisure facilities (concert hall, theatre, ice skating rink, 12-screen cinema complex, ten-pin bowling) and is only 15 minutes by car.
The North Hampshire Hospital at Basingstoke has a postgraduate centre and regular clinical meetings.
basingstoke.gptrainers.co.uk /tadley   (382 words)

  
 Basingstoke Online
Basingstoke Online is an interactive one-stop information centre and community portal that enables you to find all the information you need about Basingstoke with ease...
Basingstoke is just regimented housing estates with an aircraft hangar in the centre.
I spoke to a security guard on Saturday who said that this was their response to incidents of vandalism in the centre....
www.linkfonet.co.uk   (548 words)

  
 OEDILF - Basingstoke
Basingstoke, a town in the county of Hampshire, is referenced in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore.
Mad Margaret claims that "some word that teems with hidden meaning—like 'Basingstoke'" might recall her to proper behavior when she is losing control.
I don't know whether Georg Cantor (1845—1918) was a betting man, but he is considered the creator of modern set theory.
www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?AuthorId=174   (380 words)

  
 Basingstoke local information - Hampshire Local Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The town of Basingstoke lies within North East Hampshire and contains the villages of Chineham, Cliddesden, Deane, Dummer, Ellisfield, Farleigh Wallop, Greywell, Herriard, Kingsclere, Mapledurwell, North Waltham, Nutley, Oakley, Old Basing, Overton, Preston Candover, Sherborne St. John,
Community information for Basingstoke from Cousin - Hampshire's directory of services to the community.
Leisure activities and groups in the Basingstoke area - taken from Cousin - Hampshire's directory of services to the community.
www.hants.gov.uk /localpages/north_east/basingstoke   (299 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Illustrated History of Basingstoke: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Arthur Attwood's densely-illustrated history of Basingstoke gives a fascinating insight into the varied and surprising events, personalities and wider developments that created the town of the present day.
The story ranges from the Romans, the Guild of the Holy Ghost and Jane Austen to the arrival of the railway and sudden post-war growth of the modern town.
It has been a life's ambition to write a comprehensive illustrated history of Basingstoke and I am very pleased at what the publishers have achieved.Having spent 85 years of my long life in my native town, I am thrilled to think that I have upheld the family tradition of recording the town's history.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859832717   (514 words)

  
 Basingstoke tourist information guide
Basingstoke, is a large, prosperous and modern town, with a modern road system and major in and out of town shopping areas.
Nearby is Basingstoke Leisure Park with ice rink, Superbowl and 10 screen cinema.
On the M3, the Days Inn Basingstoke East provides quality accommodation and an ideal base for exploring the Hampshire countryside.
www.touruk.co.uk /hamp/ham_basi.htm   (683 words)

  
 Basingstoke Moves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Basingstoke Moves is a leading removals and delivery service based in Basingstoke but moving things throughout the UK.
Even if you've only got a few things to move, or you are not in Basingstoke, we'd be very happy to help - click here to see the advantages of using removal companies compared to hiring a van!
If you are not familiar with our service and your first contact with us is online then please let us know what your needs and questions are.
www.basingstokemoves.com   (196 words)

  
 Basingstoke Trainers: Odiham Health Centre
It is 9 miles from Basingstoke, 8 miles from Farnham and 7 miles from Fleet.
The nearby Basingstoke canal can be used for boating, fishing, walks etc. RAF Odiham, with its three Chinook squadrons, is about a mile away.
N Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke is about 10 miles away, and we refer most patients there for inpatient and outpatient care.
basingstoke.gptrainers.co.uk /odiham   (1008 words)

  
 Basingstoke P.U.M.A Tae Kwon Do
This is a complete change in layout and design, which should hopefully make the site more users oriented.
Any comments good or bad then please post in the forum or email me at admin..
Basingstoke P.U.M.A Tae Kwon Do © Basingstoke P.U.M.A. Tae Kwon Do Snitz Forums 2000
www.basingstoke-tkd.co.uk   (190 words)

  
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The Basingstoke and District Model Engineering Society was founded by a small group of people over 30 years ago who enjoyed to build, run and maintain machinery and model engines.
The BandDMES is a member of the Basingstoke Roundabout - which supports and encourages local clubs and businesses in the Basingstoke area.
Basingstoke DMES does not endorse any such sites or the information, material, products or services contained on or accessible through those sites, and your access and use of such sites, including information, material, products and services therein, is solely at your own risk.
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