Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Travel writing

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