Aldermaston Street was part of an estate of 50 acres that a barrister called James Whitchurch purchased (for £10 an acre) in the nineteenth century. Streets began to be laid out on the estate during 1846. Aldermaston, Bramley, Pamber and Silchester were four neighbouring villages near Basingstoke, where Whitchurch’s daughter – Florence Blechynden Whitchurch – was living.
Aldermaston Street was one of the streets which disappeared after the Westway was built though it didn’t lie directly on the route. Instead its footprint covers what is now the Westway Sports Centre.
