Basingstoke, Hampshire : Historical writing

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 municipal borough and market town Bartholomew
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 Historical 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

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Basingstoke. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
BASEING STOKE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
BASENSTOKE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
BASING STOKE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BASINGSTOKE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BASINGSTOKE OR NORTHERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BASIN STOAKE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
BASINSTOAKE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.