Local Walks

(vero;2021-June-20)

Basingstoke is quite a substantial town with around 115,000 inhabitants; a small and quiet market town until the mid 1960s, it has developed and grown significantly over the years as the town was chosen as an overspill for London and many companies settled there attracting workers and their families. We have lived here since 1998 and have witnessed how fast the town is growing, new houses being built relentlessly and slowly but surely encroaching the surrounding countryside. We are lucky in so far that we live on the outskirts of town and that the M3 motorway still serves as an unofficial "natural" border to the south, a fact which has so far been respected but starts nowadays to be threatened by new planning requests (strongly resisted by the local population, so there is hope). We just need to walk about ten minutes, cross the bridge over the motorway to be in the countryside or drive quite small distances to enjoy great walks.

This gallery is a collection of pictures taken during our walks around Basingstoke and will expand as time goes.

Go back to Polesden Lacey or go on to English Heritage Snapshots or go up to Basingstoke and Around

$updated from: Basingstoke and Around.htxt Mon 04 Mar 2024 16:04:46 trvl2 (By Vero and Thomas Lauer)$