How to choose a dog groomer in Basingstoke and north Hampshire
Dog grooming is unregulated in the UK, so the checking is on you. This directory covers 33 groomers across eight areas of Basingstoke and north Hampshire: Basingstoke town centre (RG21, RG22), Chineham and Basingstoke north (RG24), Oakley (RG23), Overton (RG25), Tadley (RG26), Hook (RG27), Whitchurch (RG28) and Odiham (RG29). This town was split out of a larger Salisbury and Basingstoke page in September 2026; a handful of businesses moved across with it, and the parent page's own coverage of Salisbury, Amesbury, Andover, Winchester and Warminster is unaffected.
Check how well the business is documented
Of the 33 businesses listed, 11 were confirmed from a working website plus at least one other independent source (marked high confidence): Barkerz Grooming Parlour, Wiggle Waggs and Washes, Pesky Pooch Dog Grooming, Happy Tails Grooming, Abbey Road Grooming, Pimp My Pooch Dog Grooming, Dogwood Basingstoke Pet Grooming Spa, Furdresser Dog Grooming, Gruffs, The Grooming Table and JMS Professional Mobile Dog Grooming Service. Eighteen are medium confidence, usually meaning the details come from a directory listing, a Facebook page that couldn't be checked directly, or a phone number confirmed separately from the rest of the record. Four are low confidence — Mucky Puppys' Mobile Grooming, Posh Paws Grooming, Pounce & Paws Dog Grooming and Oakland Road Groomer — and each carries a plain note in its listing that the details are from search results only and should be confirmed by phone before booking.
A business with two claimed bases
Red Dog Grooming is listed here under Odiham, on Wingate Lane in Long Sutton, because that's the address given in the Address section of its own website, which also states it covers Hook, Fleet, Alton, Farnham, Basingstoke and the surrounding area. Separate directory pages instead gave a Bramley address, and its own Facebook page describes it as based in Winchfield near Hook; rather than pick between two second-hand sources, this listing follows what the business's own site states as its base. Its details here also carry the confirm-by-phone note, so check the current address, along with prices and what's included, before you book.
Name clashes worth knowing about
Clip4Dogs, a genuine mobile dog groomer on Mathias Walk, shares a very similar name with Clipit-Grooming, a Basingstoke grooming-equipment retailer and trainer rather than a pet-grooming service; only Clip4Dogs is listed here. Smart-Paws Dog Grooming, in Daneshill, shares its trading name with an unrelated mobile groomer working only in West Sussex; no website is given for the Basingstoke-area business here, to avoid linking to the wrong one. Oakland Road Groomer in Whitchurch also appears under a second name, Pampered Paws, at the same address and phone number on one directory, so which name the business currently trades under isn't fully certain. A business trading as K9 Klips, with conflicting locations given for the same name on different sites, could not be confirmed as one business or two and isn't listed here at all.
Mobile groomers
Four of the 33 businesses listed here are mobile services that come to your home rather than working from a fixed salon: Dirty Dog Wash (Hook), Clip4Dogs (Basingstoke town centre), Mucky Puppys' Mobile Grooming (Basingstoke town centre) and JMS Professional Mobile Dog Grooming Service (Odiham). Always confirm they cover your postcode, and ask about any call-out charge, before booking.
Reviews
16 of the 33 groomers listed here show a Google rating, taken from the business's own Google profile and linked from the listing; the others have no rating from a source this directory can link to. Several businesses' own websites or directory listings mention star ratings or review counts — Dogwood Basingstoke Pet Grooming Spa's own site states a 5-star rating from 44 Google reviews, and D4Doggrooming's directory listing shows four 5-star reviews — but none of these could be independently verified against a fetched Google Maps, Trustpilot, Fresha, Booksy or Yelp page during research, so none is shown as a rating here. Ask to see recent work, a reference, or photos of previous grooms instead.
Where they are, and where they're thin
Coverage is heaviest in Basingstoke town centre and Chineham (seven groomers each), followed by Odiham (five), Hook and Whitchurch (four each) and Overton (three). Two areas are notably thin: Oakley has two listed groomers, and Tadley has only one, Natty's Dog Grooming, the sole business the researcher could confirm as based in Tadley itself rather than in a neighbouring town. If you're in either area and want more choice, Basingstoke town centre and Chineham are both a short drive away.
Who was left out
Four businesses with a confirmed name and address were left out of this directory for lack of a confirmed phone number: Bear's Dog Grooming and Pristine Dogs - Basingstoke Dog Grooming (both Basingstoke town centre), D4Doggrooming (Oakley) and Dog Grooming Services (Hook). No national chains, such as Pets at Home / The Groom Room branches, are included, as is standard across this site.