The land around Kempshott was mainly farming and grazing land and it was not till after the Great War that people decided to build houses and liver here.

'Campsesette' as it was originally has evidence of early settlements and a Roman road was built from Londinium (London) via Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) and Old Sarum near Salisbury to Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter. The Romans eventually left the area in 410AD and the Celts moved in for a while. The Atrebates built a defensive fort between the two cities just to the north of Campesette.

Kempshott House was owned by Mr J Crook from the 1700s and George Augustus Frederick better known as the Prince of Wales had his honey moon at Kempshott House with Caroline of Brunswick his new wife. The house overlooked the Basingstoke Golf Club and dated from 1784. When the M3 motorway from Southampton to London was built the house was demolished. The old Coach House though was rescued and refurbished as is still used today for some residential and some commercial purposes, and this can be found at Junction 7 of the M3 motorway into Dummer.

The Lordship of the Manor of Kempshott was auctioned off in the 1980s and the new buyer bought a title that dated back to Edward the Confessor, it having previously belonged to the Rycroft family who acquired in in the middle of the 19th century before the title was owned by the Pinke family (bought by Henry Pinke in 1578)

The Lords of the manor also included the Tichbourne family and Norman Baron Hugh de Sifrewast and the Domesday Book has it listed among the possessions of Hugh de Port as a reward for supporting William the Conqueror.

Around 1788 the Prince of Wales rented Kempshott House as a hunting lodge and he brought Mrs Fitzherbert here and it was stated that it was furnished to her taste . A seraglio is said to have existed and the Princes conduct brought scandal down on to the area it was in 1795 that he married Caroline of Brunswick.

Kempshott began to expand in the 60s to cater for the trade that was moving in and it is now in its own parish. The new church dedicated to St Mark was opened in 1987 before this there was no church the nearest being five miles away at Worting. Basingstoke Down was the name of the development in the Kempshott area and there were sheep fairs held here, horse racing as well till 1786.