South East England
Hampshire
Basingstoke & Deane

Rooksdown

Rooksdown is a civil parish in the district of , England. The parish was formed on 1 April 2004. It covers a small estate in the north-west of which was previously part of the parish of Sherborne St.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 5,790 residents
  • Description: village in Hampshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Rooksdown, Hampshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basingstoke railway station and Milestones Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Peter Jordan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of , in , England. It is on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo, with local and fast services operated by South Western Railway.

Museum
Photo: Simon Green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
of Living History is a museum located on the Leisure Park in , , . Milestones is made up of a network of streets that have been recreated according to those found in Victorian and 1930s Hampshire.

Hospital
Photo: Simon and Alison Downham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 450-bed National Health Service in , , run by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Basingstoke and Winklebury.

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a market town in . It has been around since the Domesday Book, but was developed as a 'new town', one of several constructed in the 1950s to accommodate overspill population from London.

Suburb
Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
and Manydown is a large suburb located two miles north-west of central in the . Until the late 1960s was a collection of small holdings but Basingstoke's growth as a London Overspill town saw the area become a housing hotspot.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of and Lychpit, in the district, in , England, just east of . It was called Basengum in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Basinges in the Domesday Book. is situated 3½ miles east of Rooksdown.

Rooksdown

Latitude
51.2794° or 51° 16′ 46″ north
Longitude
-1.1238° or 1° 7′ 26″ west
Population
5,790
Elevation
404 feet (123 metres)
Open location code
9C3W7VHG+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 336796459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
7296490
Wiki­data ID
Q2347291
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Welsh—“Rooksdown” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “রক্সডাউন”
  • Cebuano: “Rooksdown”
  • Chinese: “魯克斯道恩”
  • Chinese: “鲁克斯道恩”
  • Dutch: “Rooksdown”
  • French: “Rooksdown”
  • German: “Rooksdown”
  • Gujarati: “રૂક્સડાઉન”
  • Irish: “Rooksdown”
  • Japanese: “ロックスダウン”
  • Kannada: “ರೂಕ್ಸ್ಡೌನ್”
  • Korean: “룩스다운”
  • Ladin: “Rooksdown”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruksdaunas”
  • Polish: “Rooksdown”
  • Portuguese: “Rooksdown”
  • Russian: “Руксдаун”
  • Spanish: “Rooksdown”
  • Swedish: “Rooksdown”
  • Tamil: “ரூக்ஸ்டொவ்ன்”
  • Telugu: “రూక్స్డౌన్”
  • Urdu: “روکسدوون”
  • Welsh: “Rooksdown”
  • “Rooksdown”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Elm Bottom Cross and Sherborne Fields.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mill Road Play Area and Saxon Wood School.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rooksdown”. Photo: Tbotten, CC BY-SA 3.0.