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Basingstoke. Basingstoke (/ ˈbeɪzɪŋstoʊk / BAY-zing-stohk) is a town in Hampshire, situated in south-central England across a valley at the source of the River Loddon on the western edge of the North Downs. It is the largest settlement in Hampshire without city status. It is located 30 miles (48 km) north-east of Southampton, 48 miles (77 ...
Basingstoke Canal. The Basingstoke Canal is an English canal, completed in 1794, built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation. From Basingstoke, the canal passes through or near Greywell, North Warnborough, Odiham, Dogmersfield, Fleet, Farnborough Airfield, Aldershot, Mytchett, Brookwood, Knaphill and ...
The River Wey Navigation connects to the Basingstoke Canal at West Byfleet, and the Godalming Navigation to the Wey and Arun Canal near Shalford. The navigations consist of both man-made canal cuts and adapted (dredged and straightened) parts of the River Wey. The Wey was one of the first rivers in England to be made navigable; the River Wey ...
Basingstoke station was the terminus of the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, opened in 1901 to prevent the GWR from building a line on this route towards Portsmouth. The line was never profitable. During the First World War some of the track was sold off. After the war the Southern Railway reopened the line, but it was closed finally in 1932.
Roads in the United Kingdom. Motorways. A and B road zones. The A303 is a trunk road in southern England, running between Basingstoke in Hampshire and Honiton in Devon via Stonehenge. Connecting the M3 and the A30, it is part of one of the main routes from London to Devon and Cornwall. It is a primary A road throughout its length, passing ...
Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway system in 1903. The line was designed to run through a thinly populated agricultural area. Although it connected neatly on a map to the (proposed) Meon Valley Railway, it would be a 20 mph light railway, with several 10 mph open level crossings, and it was unlikely to form part of a trunk route.
The A33 originally started at a junction with what was the A32 at Riseley Common and was a continuous route to Southampton [9] Between Basingstoke and Southampton, it mostly followed the course of the historic Roman Road between these towns. [10] This section of the route became part of the London–Southampton Trunk Road. [11]
Reading–Basingstoke line. The Reading–Basingstoke line is a railway link between the South West Main Line and the Great Western Main Line, constructed by the Great Western Railway between 1846 and 1848. The line is served by GWR local services between Reading and Basingstoke, stopping at the intermediate stations of Reading West, Reading ...