Basingstoke

Basingstoke 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.
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  • Type: Town with 107,000 residents
  • Description: town in Hampshire, England
  • Also known as: “Basingstoke, England” and “Basingstoke, Hampshire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basingstoke railway station and The Anvil.

Railway station
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serves the town of Basingstoke, in , England. It is on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo, with local and fast services operated by South Western Railway.

Theater building
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is a concert hall and performing arts centre in the town of Basingstoke in , UK. The building's name reflects its unusual shape, particularly when seen from the western approach, as it resembles the horn end of a traditional blacksmith's anvil.

Museum
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The is a local history museum in the Market Place, Basingstoke, , England. The building, which was formerly known as Basingstoke Town Hall, is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winklebury and Old Basing.

Suburb
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and Manydown is a large suburb located two miles north-west of central Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke. It was called Basengum in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Basinges in the Domesday Book.

Suburb
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was a village in , England, immediately north of Basingstoke.

Basingstoke

Latitude
51.2628° or 51° 15′ 46″ north
Longitude
-1.0862° or 1° 5′ 10″ west
Population
107,000
Elevation
315 feet (96 metres)
IATA airport code
XQB
United Nations Location Code
GB BGK
Open location code
9C3W7W77+4G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262621148
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2656192
Wiki­data ID
Q810196
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Basingstoke” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Basingstoke”
  • Arabic: “باسينجستوك”
  • Armenian: “Բեյսինգսթոուք”
  • Asturian: “Basingstoke”
  • Azerbaijani: “Basinqstok”
  • Basque: “Basingstoke”
  • Bavarian: “Basingstoke”
  • Belarusian: “Бэйзынгсток”
  • Bengali: “বাসিংস্টোক”
  • Bulgarian: “Басингстоке”
  • Catalan: “Basingstoke”
  • Cebuano: “Basingstoke”
  • Chinese: “貝辛斯托克”
  • Chinese: “贝辛斯托克”
  • Croatian: “Basingstoke”
  • Czech: “Basingstoke”
  • Danish: “Basingstoke”
  • Dutch: “Basingstoke”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باسينجستوك”
  • Esperanto: “Basingstoke”
  • Finnish: “Basingstoke”
  • French: “Basingstoke”
  • German: “Basingstoke”
  • Greek: “Μπέιζινγκστοουκ”
  • Greek: “Μπεϊσινγκστόουκ”
  • Gujarati: “બેસિંગસ્ટોક”
  • Hebrew: “בייסינגסטוק”
  • Hungarian: “Basingstoke”
  • Icelandic: “Basingstoke”
  • Irish: “Basingstoke”
  • Italian: “Basingstoke”
  • Japanese: “ベイジング・ストック”
  • Japanese: “ベイジングストーク”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಸಿಂಗ್ಸ್ಟೋಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бэйсингсток”
  • Korean: “베이싱스토크”
  • Ladin: “Basingstoke”
  • Latin: “Basingstoke”
  • Latin: “Basingus”
  • Latvian: “Beizingstoka”
  • Lithuanian: “Beizingstokas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Basingstoke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basingstoke”
  • Norwegian: “Basingstoke”
  • Persian: “باسینگستوک”
  • Persian: “بیزینگ‌استوک”
  • Polish: “Basingstoke”
  • Portuguese: “Basingstoke”
  • Romanian: “Basingstoke”
  • Russian: “Бейсингсток”
  • Scots: “Basingstoke”
  • Serbian: “Basingstoke”
  • Serbian: “Басингстоук”
  • Serbian: “Бејзингстоук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Basingstoke”
  • Silesian: “Basingstoke”
  • Slovak: “Basingstoke”
  • Slovenian: “Basingstoke”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیزینقاستوک”
  • Spanish: “Basingstoke (Inglaterra)”
  • Spanish: “Basingstoke”
  • Swedish: “Basingstoke”
  • Tamil: “பசிங்ஸ்டாக்”
  • Tatar: “Бейзиңстоук”
  • Telugu: “బసింగ్స్టోక్”
  • Turkish: “Basingstoke”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейсінгсток”
  • Urdu: “بیزنگسٹوک”
  • Venetian: “Basingstoke”
  • Volapük: “Basingstoke”
  • Welsh: “Basingstoke”
  • “Basingstoke”

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