Attraction · Ash and Ash Vale · Surrey

Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre

Look for Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre, an attraction, in Ash and Ash Vale. The surrounding 5 km hold 14 more places to visit. For a second stop, Museum of Military Medicine is 900 m away.

Where

In Ash and Ash Vale

inside the built-up area

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Attraction in Ash and Ash Vale

Inside Ash and Ash Vale

Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre is inside Ash and Ash Vale’s built-up area, with 14 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Weather, month by month

Afternoons in Ash and Ash Vale reach 18–23°C from May to September.

Jan8° / 2°79 mm

Feb8° / 2°56 mm

Mar11° / 3°48 mm

Apr14° / 4°52 mm

May18° / 7°47 mm

Jun21° / 10°50 mm

Jul23° / 13°50 mm

Aug22° / 12°60 mm

Sep19° / 10°59 mm

Oct15° / 7°84 mm

Nov11° / 4°86 mm

Dec8° / 2°77 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Ash and Ash Vale, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Ash and Ash Vale. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Ash and Ash Vale’s full climate →

About

Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre

Attraction.

In Ash and Ash Vale, inside the town’s built-up area.

Type: Attraction
Town: in Ash and Ash Vale
Official site: surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/countryside/sites/visitor-information/basingstoke-canal#section-2

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Finding Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre

The map puts Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre in orange and numbers its neighbours as in the list.

Towns near it

The nearest towns

Of the 8, Farnborough is the largest, at 60,665 people. Nearest first, every town here counts it among its places to visit.

1 · It’s in town

Ash and Ash Vale

24,284 people · 24 places to visit

2 · 1 km north of it

Frimley

15,101 people · 15 places to visit

3 · 1.1 km west of it

Farnborough

60,665 people · 19 places to visit

4 · 1.5 km northeast of it

Deepcut

2,163 people · 13 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre is	People	Places to visit
Ash and Ash Vale	It’s in town	24,284	24
Frimley	1 km north of it	15,101	15
Farnborough	1.1 km west of it	60,665	19
Deepcut	1.5 km northeast of it	2,163	13
Pirbright	2.9 km northeast of it	3,920	5
Aldershot	3.2 km southwest of it	39,827	23
Camberley	3.5 km north of it	36,787	17
Wyke	3.7 km south of it	555	14

Make a day of it

Combine it with these

A visit can add 2 museums, 2 abbeys or priories and 2 cathedrals, from 63 places within 15 km.

MuseumMuseum of Military Medicine900 m away 2

Abbey or priorySaint Michael’s Abbey2.2 km away 3

Historic houseBagshot Park Mansion9.4 km away 4

CathedralCathedral of St Michael and St George, Aldershot4.1 km away 5

CathedralGuildford Cathedral10 km away 6

Castle · English HeritageFarnham Castle9.6 km away 7

Abbey or priory · English HeritageWaverley Abbey10 km away 8

MuseumWatts Gallery9.8 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre, answered

Where is Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre?

Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre is in Ash and Ash Vale, Surrey, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre?

Attraction.

When is the best time to visit Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre?

May to September are the warmest months in Ash and Ash Vale, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre?

Within 15 km: Museum of Military Medicine (900 m), Saint Michael’s Abbey (2.2 km), Bagshot Park Mansion (9.4 km) and Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Aldershot (4.1 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (8)

Museum of Military Medicine: Gaius Cornelius, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Saint Michael’s Abbey: ThunderingTyphoons!, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bagshot Park Mansion: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Aldershot: AldershotCathedral.jpg: JohnArmagh derivative work: Rabanus Flavus, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Guildford Cathedral: Hassocks5489, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
Farnham Castle: Lewis Hulbert, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Waverley Abbey: Admiralgary, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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