Our timeline will be interactive in due course,  for the time being it is held as a four section non-interactive schedule.

DecadeNotable EventsAgriculture and the EconomyKempshott
1760s1760 George III becomes king1750- The May family establish a brewery business in Basingstoke
1753 – 1788 Basingstoke Races held on Basingstoke Down
1759 Taylor’s pre-enclosure map of Basingstoke area published
1762-3 Lord Bolton’s estate maps compiled
1762 The Ship inn exists on site of Stag & Hounds