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Recommended towns & villages near Basingstoke Canal

St Lawrence Church, Alton

Alton

(8.0 miles, 12.9 km, direction S)

An historic market town which in recent times derived its prosperity from hop fields and the brewing industry, previously it had been a centre for wool and cloth...

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A Chawton Cottage

Chawton

(9.3 miles, 14.9 km, direction S)

In Chawton is the unassuming 18th-century cottage where Jane Austen once lived...

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Frensham Common (2)

Farnham

(9.9 miles, 15.9 km, direction E)

It was King Caedwalla of Wessex who, in 688 bestowed the Manor of Farnham on the Bishop's of Winchester...

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KIngsclere Downs

Kingsclere

(10.8 miles, 17.3 km, direction W)

A picturesque village in Hampshire, near to Watership Down...

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At the air show

Farnborough

(11.3 miles, 18.2 km, direction E)

This town is listed in the Doomsday Book of 1086, then it was a mere settlement which over the passing centuries developed into a village...

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Broad Street, Reading

Reading

(13.1 miles, 21.1 km, direction N)

This town lies on the extremities of the Berkshire Downs and the Chiltern Hills at a point where the waters of the rivers Thames and Kennet meet making the River Thames a major river for the rest of its journey to the sea...

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Alresford Mill House

Alresford

(13.6 miles, 22.0 km, direction SW)

Alresford is a market town in Hampshire, just north-east of the City of Winchester and south-west of the town of Alton, which it is linked to by the Mid Hants Watercress Railway.....

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Whitchurch cottage row

Whitchurch

(14.2 miles, 22.9 km, direction W)

With such pretty countryside and so much of historic interest Whitchurch makes an ideal base from which to explore the delights of rural Hampshire...

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Bridge over the River Loddon in Woodley

Woodley

(14.3 miles, 22.9 km, direction N)

There is much to do with England's great aviation history in the County of Berkshire, and at Woodley visitors will find the interesting Museum of Aviation which is appropriately.....

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Thatcham, Berkshire

Thatcham

(14.7 miles, 23.7 km, direction NW)

Claimed to be the oldest inhabited village in Britain..

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Odiham Castle, Hook, Hampshire

Odiham Castle

(2.2 miles, 3.5 km, direction E)

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Basingstoke, Ruins of the Chapel of the Holy Ghost

Chapel of the Holy Ghost

(3.4 miles, 5.4 km, direction W)

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Milestones Museum, Basingstoke

Milestones Living History Museum

(4.0 miles, 6.5 km, direction W)

Hampshire's own living history museum is set inside a huge modern building. There is a network of streets with shops, village.....

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The Summer house

The Vyne

(4.3 miles, 6.8 km, direction NW)

This house stands on a spot where once there may have been a Roman inn or villa. The name means "house of wine" which is a very.....

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Ornamental Kitchen Garden

West Green House Garden

(4.4 miles, 7.0 km, direction NE)

Celebrated garden with an intriguing collection of follies, voted one of the UK's top 50 gardens...

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Wellington Country Park, Hampshire

Wellington Country Park

(7.0 miles, 11.2 km, direction N)

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Birdworld & Underwater World

(9.2 miles, 14.9 km, direction SE)

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Yateley Country Park

(9.5 miles, 15.3 km, direction NE)

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Jane Austen's House - Chawton

Jane Austen's House

(9.6 miles, 15.5 km, direction S)

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Have we found the secret garden?

Farnham Castle

(9.8 miles, 15.8 km, direction E)

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