A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Basingstoke. You may be able to find further references to Basingstoke in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| BASINGSTOKE | a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, a hundred, and a division | Imperial |
| Basingstoke (or Northern) Division | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Basingstoke.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vine, The | seat | Bartholomew |
| VINE (The) | a seat | Imperial |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Basingstoke within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester | 4 |
| Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 3 |
| William Camden | Wiltshire and Hampshire | 2 |
| William Cobbett | Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere | 2 |
| Celia Fiennes | Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | 2 |
| William Cobbett | Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband | 1 |
| Celia Fiennes | Moving to London | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Eastrop | 0 | 2 |
| Worting | 0 | 2 |
| Kempshott | 0 | 2 |
| Cliddesden | 0 | 2 |
| Chineham | 0 | 2 |
| Monk Sherborne | 0 | 4 |
| Farleigh Wallop | 0 | 2 |
| Wootton | 0 | 3 |
| Chuteley | 0 | 2 |
| Sherborne St John | 0 | 2 |
| Basing | 6 | 3 |
| Oakley | 0 | 4 |
| Winslade | 0 | 2 |
| Tunworth | 0 | 2 |
| Mapledurwell | 0 | 2 |
| Ellisfield | 0 | 3 |
| Andwell | 0 | 2 |
| Dummer | 1 | 2 |
| Deane | 0 | 2 |
| Ramsdell | 0 | 2 |