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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 ...
Jane Austen, author; Hannah Berry, comic artist and author; Grace Blakeley, economics and political journalist; Callum Cant, author and researcher; Lucy Coats, author; Alma Deutscher, composer and conductor
Pennsylvania Route 346 (PA 346) is a 34.177-mile (55.003 km) state highway located in Warren and McKean counties in Pennsylvania, United States The western terminus is at the New York state line in the Allegheny National Forest, where it becomes New York State Route 280 (NY 280).
The A339 is a 32-mile-long (51 km) A road in England. It is the main road between Newbury in Berkshire and Alton in Hampshire. It also forms the eastern and northern parts of the Basingstoke Ring Road. Its most northern end eventually merges into the A34 north of Newbury just before meeting the M4 at J13 (Chieveley services). The section ...
The first stretch of the A33 is a relatively new road, built as the A33 relief road, which starts on the Inner Distribution Road and bypasses most of suburban Reading, servicing the Kennet Island residential development, Madejski Stadium and Green Park Business Park, towards the M4, where it connects at junction 11.
Old Basing was first settled in the sixth century by a proto-Anglo-Saxon tribe known as the Basingas.In the ninth century it was a royal estate and it was the site of the Battle of Basing on or about 22 January 871 AD, when a Viking army defeated King Æthelred of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great. [4]
Cliddesden is a village and a parish in Hampshire, England located 3 miles south of Basingstoke, close to the M3 motorway. In the 2001 census it had a population of 489, increasing to 497 at the 2011 Census. [1] The land and housing are currently protected as it is within a Conservation Zone and has many areas of beauty and rolling countryside.
a parish in Basingstoke district Hants; 1 mile S of Nately-Scures, and 4 E by S of Basingstoke r. station. Post-town, Basingstoke. Acres, 1,013. Real property, £805. Pop., 99. Houses, 26. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Basing, in the diocese of Winchester. [10]