Kingsclere Library
Hampshire County Council Library Service Library
35 George Street, Kingsclere, Hampshire, RG20 5NH
Telephone - 0845 603 5631*
*Calls will cost up to 4p per minute for BT customers. Calls made using other service providers or mobiles may cost more.
Alternatively call 01329 225398 - standard and local call rates apply to this number
Supervisor - Mrs Rowena Hensman
Opening hours: Monday - 10.30am - 1pm and 2.00pm - 5.00pm, Thursday - 2pm-7pm, Saturday - 10am - 12.30pm

Kingsclere has a first class small branch library. It has an excellent children's library, a good but small reference section, and an HCC Information Point plus its own computer system on-line to the County systems and the Internet. The access card is valid at any Hampshire library. Tadley has a slightly larger library at Mulfords Hill and the main library is in the Basingstoke Town Centre. This has a very large reference library and a wide range of other resources. Other activities are also organised on a regular basis. Look out for the monthly announcements in the “Tower” magazine.

Kingsclere Post Office
17a George Street, Kingsclere, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 5NH
Telephone: 01635 298211

All post office counter business except passports, i.e. postage, girobank, bill payments, personal banking, motor vehicle license, savings bank, pensions and allowances, fishing license, travel insurance, bureau de change, postal orders, mail work including deliveries in the village.

Most banks and building societies have arrangements with the Post Office so that you can withdraw cash without incurring a fee.

Hours: Monday to Friday - 9am-5.30pm (closed 1pm-2pm for lunch) Saturday - 9am-12.30pm Closed Tuesday afternoons

Last post collection in Kingsclere is 4.45pm but a later post collection is available at Basingstoke Sorting Office, Priestley Road at 6.45pm. (near North Hampshire Hospital)

Sentinel Housing Association Ltd
56 Kingsclere Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XG
Web site: www.sentinelha.org.uk/residentsonline
Tel: 01256 338800 Residents: 0800 195 5515

Reporting repairs: For Gas Servicing contact Central Heating Services directly 0800 917 9306. All other repairs can be reported by telephone to 0800 195 5515 You can also use Sentinel's online repairs reporting system. You can report a repair at any time using our easy to follow diagrams at www.sentinelha.org.uk/repairsonline.html It is important however to note that these requests are not monitored outside normal office hours. During these times emergency repairs should be reported by telephone on 0800 195 5515. The system helps you to identify the problem and will provide you with advice along the way. All requests will have to be verified before they are processed. Sentinel is committed to providing an effective, efficient and economic repair service. We realise that this is important to our residents. The online system helps you by being available twenty-four hours a day and helps us to provide a better service.

Utility Companies

The main suppliers of utilities in our area are British Gas (gas), Southern Electricity (electric), Southern Water (water) and Thames Water (sewerage). However many residents use alternative companies as their suppliers but the following numbers can still be used in an emergency.