Basingstoke

Followers of the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church have threatened to picket a sixth form college in Basingstoke, Hampshire during a staging of The Laramie Project, a play about an American youth murdered because of his sexuality.

Westboro hate group masquerading as a church announces first anti-homosexuality picket in Britain 2009

Sir Sven was chryogenically frozen and his remains are stored at ETHEL headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

…writing your own obituary. « Sven’s guide to… 2008

Sir Harry Verney, Bt, an unsuccessful candidate in Basingstoke, lived until December 23rd 1974.

Profumo's claim to fame 2006

And she was from Basingstoke, which is nothing to be ashamed of.

Excerpt: The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde 2005

Returning from London I passed my birthday, November 12, 1883, in Basingstoke.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

Plymouth expresses stop longest at Salisbury, where Hilda would, therefore, have been likely to post her note if she were going to the far west; while some of the Southampton trains stop at Basingstoke, which is, indeed, the most convenient point on that route for sending off a letter.

Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose Grant Allen 1873

Do you recall the distraught lady in _Ruddigore_, who was always charmed into silence by the mystic word "Basingstoke"?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

In past posts I've talked about a mythical Microsoft product named "Basingstoke".

TechNet Blogs 2008

Whole campaigns can be summarised as: get Basingstoke!

Will anyone vote for AV in the electoral reform referendum? 2011

I teach media studies to 11- to 16-year-olds in Basingstoke, and I find that although I have to buy all of the dailies when I talk to my students about newspapers, I quickly discard the others.

Good to Meet You: Keith Langton 2011