Milestones Museum

Milestones Museum of Living History is a museum located on the Leisure Park in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK. Milestones is made up of a network of streets that have been recreated according to those found in Victorian and 1930s Hampshire.

Photo: Simon Green, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Opening hours:
Tuesday—Sunday: 10:00 AM—4:45 PM
Monday: closed
Type: Museum
Description: Heritage center in Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Milestones”, “Milestones History Museum”, and “Milestones Living History Museum”
Roof shape: round
Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Planet Ice Basingstoke and Winklebury Infant School.

Planet Ice Basingstoke

Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Planet Ice Basingstoke is a 2,000-seat multi-purpose arena operated by Planet Ice in Basingstoke, England. It was built in 1988 and has an Olympic sized 60 m × 30 m ice rink. Planet Ice Basingstoke is situated 2,100 feet west of Milestones Museum.

Winklebury Infant School

School

Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Basingstoke 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. Winklebury Infant School is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Milestones Museum.

Basingstoke College of Technology

College

Photo: Peter Glyn, CC BY 3.0.

Basingstoke College of Technology is a further education college in Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom. The college is located in the centre of Basingstoke on Worting Road, and consists of three campus buildings: North, South, and STEM. Basingstoke College of Technology is situated 3,500 feet east of Milestones Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winklebury and Oakridge.

Winklebury

Suburb

Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Winklebury and Manydown is a large suburb located two miles north-west of central Basingstoke in the UK. Until the late 1960s Winklebury was a collection of small holdings but Basingstoke's growth as a London Overspill town saw the area become a housing hotspot.

Oakridge

Suburb

Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oakridge was a village in Hampshire, England, immediately north of Basingstoke.

Basingstoke

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Basingstoke is a market town in Hampshire. 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.

Milestones Museum

Categories: heritage center, local museum, independent museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.26654° or 51° 15′ 60″ north

Longitude

-1.11112° or 1° 6′ 40″ west

Elevation

322 feet (98 metres)

Levels

Open location code

9C3W7V8Q+JH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 28082741

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

OpenStreetMap attribute

roof-shape=round

OpenStreetMap attribute

wheelchair=yes

GeoNames ID

8199247

Wikidata ID

Q15253385

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