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Rooksdown
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Rooksdown is a civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. The parish was formed on 1 April 2004. It covers a small estate in the north-west of Basingstoke which was previously part of the parish of Sherborne St. John, itself originally part of the Vyne estate.
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- Locality
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Population
- 3580
- Official website
- www.rooksdown.org.uk
- Image
- Park Prewett.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01256
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- Rooksdown
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- SU6155
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Rooksdown is a civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. The parish was formed on 1 April 2004. It covers a small estate in the north-west of Basingstoke which was previously part of the parish of Sherborne St. John, itself originally part of the Vyne estate.
==History== Rooksdown is the name of the locality and is shown as Rooks Down in the Ogilby strip maps of 1675. It is also the name of the old Roman road that passes through the Parish, and of the now demolished Rooksdown Hospital, originally Rooksdown House (the Private annexe of Park Prewett Hospital), which once occupied the north west corner of the parish at the junction of Kingsclere Road and Rooksdown Road.
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