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Basingstoke
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Things to see & do in Basingstoke
The town of Basingstoke offers its visitors many attractions to explore, from cafe's and bistros to one of the South's best shopping centres, Festival Place. The Leisure Park, is home to ice skating, bowling, swimming complex and cinemas.
For a bit of history take a walk through the Milestones museum where you are taken back to Victorian and 1930s streets. Explore the shops, houses and workplaces of yesteryear and discover what everyday life was like for our ancestors.
Basingstoke also has many nearby attractions. Stratfield Saye House offers an intriguing insight into the life of the Great Duke of Wellington, whose family lived there from 1817, while novelist Jane Austen attended balls at Tudor mansion The Vyne, originally home to Henry VIII's Lord Chamberlain.
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