Basingstoke (gbr)

Basingstoke

Basingstoke ranks 2,059th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Aquileia, Kaposvár, and Bangui. Memorable people born in Basingstoke include Elizabeth Hurley, Ian McNeice, and Nora Stanton Barney. Memorable people who died in Basingstoke include John Gardner and Dukinfield Henry Scott. Basingstoke has been the birth place of many actors and architects and the death place of many writers and biologists. Basingstoke is located in United Kingdom.

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 2016 population estimate, the town had a population of 113,776. It is part of the borough of Basingstoke and Deane and part of the parliamentary constituency of Basingstoke. Read more on Wikipedia