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South Ham is a district and ward of Basingstoke, to the west of the town centre. It takes its name from South Ham Farm, which was once the major farm in the area but was demolished in the early 1960s.
This is a list of settlements in the county of Hampshire, England.Places highlighted in bold type are towns or cities.. The Isle of Wight was in Hampshire until 1890. [a] Bournemouth and adjacent parishes in the far west [b] were transferred to the ceremonial and administrative county of Dorset in 1974.
The suffix “ham” name may suggest a farm or enclosure, and Coates [5] suggests “Chine” is derived from the Old English 'cinu' which means a 'ravine or rift', which may refer to the way that the Basingstoke-Reading railway line passes between low hills in the vicinity, and implying that Chineham means 'rift estate'.
Basingstoke is situated close to junctions 6, 7 and 8 of the M3 motorway, which skirts the town's south-eastern edge, linking the town to London, and to Southampton and the south-west. The central area of the town is encircled by The Ringway, a ring road constructed in the 1960s, and is bisected east to west by the A3010 (Churchill Way).
Viables is a district of Basingstoke, England, that was formed around 1970 as part of the Basingstoke Town Centre Development Plan.The area is mostly made up of industry such as crafting centres, [1] industrial and housing estates and the Jazz Buss Service.
A short distance south-west down the A30 is another public house and hotel, The Wheatsheaf. [7] To the south-west of Dummer village by about 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) is Dummer Down Farm. This is the site of the Dummer Cricket Centre which was founded by Major Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York. [8]
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Whitnal is a hamlet and small civil parish situated in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England.. Its nearest town is Whitchurch, which lies approximately 2.75 miles (4.4 km) south-west from the haml