Basingstoke
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.
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. It is the largest settlement in Hampshire without city status. 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. According to the 2021 population estimate, the town had a population of 107,642. It is part of the borough of Basingstoke and Deane and part of the parliamentary constituency of Basingstoke.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Milestones Museum
Tue-Fri 10AM-5PM, Sat Sun 11AM-5PM, Mon closed.
- 02Steventon
Steventon Manor, Steventon, Hampshire RG25 3BE (7 miles (11 km) south west of Basingstoke).
- 03Wote Street Willy
The largest statue of a penis on public display in Britain.
- 04Viables Roundabout
Home to Britain's shortest piece of gauge railway track.
- 05Crockford Lane Roundabout
Displays a ribbon of around 100 red steel human silhouettes.
- 06Basing House
Redbridge Lane, Old Basing (1 mile east of Basingstoke),.
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Things to do
Conference South Football at The Camrose, Western Way. Basingstoke Blues Club, 20 Churchill Way, RG21 7QU. Listen to live quality blues bands once a month.
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Where to eat
The Basingstoke area has many restaurants of different types and costs and it clearly isn't possible to list them all here.
- 01The Millstone Pub
Bartons Lane, Lychpit, RG24 8AE (adjacent to Basing House car park),.
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Getting to Basingstoke
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 49 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 64 km · London Luton (LTN), 84 km
- London → Basingstoke72 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–10
- Luton, Luton → Basingstoke83 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £10–13
- Bristol → Basingstoke107 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Basingstoke
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Basingstoke. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Basingstoke – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Basingstoke
Basingstoke is 23 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.