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The Harrow Way is an Iron-age ancient route that runs to the south of the town. Further to the east, another Roman road ran from Chichester through the outlying villages of Upton Grey and Mapledurwell. Nearby, to the west, Roman Road marks the course of a Roman road that ran from Winchester to Silchester. The site of Winklebury camp was home to Fort Hill Community School (this school has shutdown). The hillfort at Winklebury ( 2 miles (3 km) west of the town centre), known locally as Winklebury Camp or Winklebury Ring dates from the Iron Age and there are remains of several other earthworks around Basingstoke, including a long barrow near Down Grange.

History Early settlements The remains of the 16th-century Chapel of the Holy Ghost, BasingstokeĪ Neolithic campsite of around 3000 BC beside a spring on the west of the town is the earliest known human settlement here, but the Willis Museum has flint implements and axes from nearby fields that date back to Palæolithic times. Basing remained the main settlement until changes in the local church moved the religious base from St Marys Church, Basing, to the church in Basingstoke.

Basing, now Old Basing, a village 2 miles (3 km) to the east, is thought to have the same etymology, and was the original Anglo-Saxon settlement of the people – Basingas – led by a tribal chief called Basa. The name Basingstoke (A.D 990 Embasinga stocæ, Domesday Basingestoches) is believed to have been derived from the town's position as the outlying, western settlement of Basa's people. Other industries include IT, telecommunications, insurance and electronics. It is also the location of the European headquarters of the TaylorMade Golf Company.

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īasingstoke became an important economic centre during the second half of the 20th century and houses the locations of the UK headquarters of Motorola, The Automobile Association, De La Rue, Sun Life Financial, ST Ericsson, GAME, Barracuda Networks, Eli Lilly and Company, FCB Halesway part of FCB, BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions (the leasing arm of BNP Paribas in the UK) and Sony Professional Solutions. It still has a regular market, but is now larger than Hampshire County Council's definition of a market town. At the start of the Second World War, the population was little more than 13,000. Basingstoke market was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and it remained a small market town until the early 1960s. It was developed rapidly after the Second World War, along with various other towns in the United Kingdom, in order to accommodate part of the London 'overspill' as perceived under the Greater London Plan in 1944.

It is part of the borough of Basingstoke and Deane and part of the parliamentary constituency of Basingstoke.īasingstoke is an old market town expanded in the mid-1960s, as a result of an agreement between London County Council and Hampshire County Council. According to the 2016 population estimate, the town had a population of 113,776. It is located 30 miles (48 km) north-east of Southampton, 48 miles (77 km) south-west of London, 27 miles (43 km) west of Guildford, 22 miles (35 km) south of Reading and 20 miles (32 km) north-east of the county town and former capital Winchester. It is the largest settlement in Hampshire without city status. List of places UK England Hampshire 51☁6′00″N 1☀5′15″W / 51.2667°N 1.0876°W / 51.2667 -1.0876īasingstoke ( / ˈ b eɪ z ɪ ŋ s t oʊ k/ BAY-zing-stohk) 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.