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Basingstoke

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Ba·sing·stoke  (bzng-stk)
A municipal borough of south-central England on the North Downs west-southwest of London. Mentioned as a royal manor in the Domesday Book, it was long a market center for silk and woolen textiles. Population: 90,100.
Basingstoke [ˈbeɪzɪŋˌstəʊk]
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(Placename) a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop.: 77 837 (1991)
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There will be nobody but ourselves, unless we have a mind to have the landlord; for I have sent Parson Supple down to Basingstoke after my tobacco-box, which I left at an inn there, and I would not lose it for the world; for it is an old acquaintance of above twenty years' standing.
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At Weybridge, the Wey (a pretty little stream, navigable for small boats up to Guildford, and one which I have always been making up my mind to explore, and never have), the Bourne, and the Basingstoke Canal all enter the Thames together.
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