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Site name Photograph B G Area [a] Access Location [a] Other Map and Citation [b] Description Alresford Pond: 30.2 hectares (75 acres) [3] FP Alresford 3]: Map Citation: This large lake was created by Godfrey de Lucy, who was Bishop of Winchester between 1189 and 1204, to provide a reservoir of water to make the River Itchen navigable. [4]
People from Basingstoke by occupation (2 C) A. Archdeacons of Basingstoke (8 P) B. Bishops of Basingstoke (7 P) Pages in category "People from Basingstoke"
Basingstoke has a wide diversity for musical groups ranging from brass bands to symphony orchestras. [64] The Basingstoke Concert Band is a traditional wind band which has now been in existence for more than 35 years. [64] The band was started in 1977 by Lawrie Shaw when Brighton Hill Community School opened, where he was the first headteacher.
This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Bold text denotes a person who was born in Basingstoke. Arts and humanities
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]
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 ...
St Joseph, South Ham, Basingstoke. 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.
Overton is a large village and parish in Hampshire, England, west of Basingstoke and east of Andover and Whitchurch. The village contains the smaller hamlets of Southington, Northington, Ashe, Polhampton, and Quidhampton, the latter two lying to the north of the village. The River Test has its source 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east in Ashe.