Kempshott

Kempshott is a ward of Basingstoke[1] on the western edge of the town, to the south of Pack Lane (part of the Harrow Way)and north of Winchester Road.

[2] The manor of Kempshott belonged to Aldret in the reign of Edward the Confessor,[3] and is recorded as being part of the possessions of Hugh de Port, High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1086.

A. M. W. Stirling, editor of Stephen Terry's The Diaries of Dummer, states that the Prince of Wales rented Kempshot House around 1788 as a hunting lodge.

In recent years an additional housing development referred to as Gabriel Park was built and is situated at the A30 end of Kempshott Lane.

It starts in the south from the Traffic Lights on the A30, opposite the entrance to the Beggarwood estate, and runs down hill along the developed western edge of Kempshott, skirting and connected to Gabriel Park, Gracemere Crescent, Heron Way and Kestrel Road, before reaching Pack Lane, approximately 100 yards from the traffic light junction referred to as 'Five Ways'.