Hartfordbridge to Basingstoke
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county:
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Hartley Wintney
Hampshire
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Newnham
Old Basing
Hampshire
county:
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Hampshire
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Runs NE-SW ; from Hartfordbridge, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire; roughly via Hook, Newnham, Old Basing, Hampshire; to Basingstoke, Hampshire.
The place is described in text Cox 1738
Basingstoke, a good Market-Town, and a great Thorough-fare, lying in the Western Road, forty-five Miles from London. ...
Period - 18th century, early
Before we reach Basingstoke [from the east], we get rid of that unpleasant country, which I so often call a desart [Bagshot Heath], and enter into a pleasant fertile country, enclosed and cultivated like the rest of England; and passing a village or two, we enter Basingstoke, in the midst of woods and pastures, rich and fertile, and the country accordingly spread with the houses of the nobility and gentry, as in other places: ...
otherwise: Ogilby Route 25
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
Period - 16th century
table of distances
Here foloweth the waye fro~ Saint Buryen in Cornewell to London.
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from Basingstoke to Hertfordbryge viii. myle.
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Period - 16th century (early)
map
The hie Wey ledyng from london to Basyngstoke
a pictorial sketch map including an everyday scene on the road, a packhorse and a cart, at Andwell
