Basingstoke
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.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Basingstoke railway station and The Anvil.
Basingstoke railway station
Railway station
The Anvil
Theater building
Willis Museum
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winklebury and Old Basing.
Old Basing
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Basingstoke
- Categories: big city, unparished area, and locality
- Location: Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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
UN/LOCODE
GB BGK
Open location code
9C3W7W77+4G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “Бејзингстоук”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Basingstoke”
- Silesian: “Basingstoke”
- Slovak: “Basingstoke”
- Slovenian: “Basingstoke”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیزینقاستوک”
- 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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