The accompanying graph shows the growth of carriers’ services centred on Basingstoke and extending to villages within a 6 to 8 mile radius of the t
There are nine surviving wills with ten inventories belonging to them and one inventory of John Smales who died intestate in this period.
Wills and inventories dating from 1518-1831 have been transcribed by the Wills Group of the New Victoria County of Hampshire project, based in Basi
Transcriptions and analysis of all the censuses have been made by the New VCH Hampshire volunteer group based in Basingstoke.
In 1811 there were 40 families in 35 houses.
This building at the top of Sarum Hill, Basingstoke, was erected in July 1883 by Colonel John May of May’s Brewery as a Drill Hall for K Company, 1
Founded in 1841, the aims of the Institute were to instruct members in science and useful knowledge by the means of lectures, conversation and read
Sir Richard Aldworth (d.1646) left money to the Corporation of Basingstoke to educate ten boys of good and religious poor men of the town and to af
At the time of its opening in October 1888, the location of this relatively remote chapel was described as ‘a perfect little paradise.’ Although it
By the 1860s, railway signal boxes had become one of the most conspicuous structures of the rapidly changing landscape of Victorian London.
