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Basingstoke
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Basingstoke (bā`zĭngstōk), city (1991 pop. 73,027), Hampshire, S central England, on the North Downs. Formerly a market town trading in silk and woolens, it has developed several industries, including the manufacture of agricultural machinery, precision tools and instruments, leather, clothing, and drugs. The city is growing rapidly, largely because of a population overspill from London. In 871, Alfred Alfred, 849–99, king of Wessex (871–99), sometimes called Alfred the Great, b. Wantage, Berkshire.

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The youngest son of King Æthelwulf, he was sent in 853 to Rome, where the pope gave him the title of Roman consul.
..... Click the link for more information.  defeated the Danes at nearby Basing; in 1645 Oliver Cromwell Cromwell, Oliver (krŏm`wĕl, krŭm`–, –wəl), 1599–1658, lord protector of England.
..... Click the link for more information.  won a victory there. Basingstoke is mentioned as a royal manor in the Domesday Book Domesday Book (d
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Basingstoke
a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop.: 90 171 (2001)


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