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Old Basing was first settled in the sixth century by a proto-Anglo-Saxon tribe known as the Basingas.In the ninth century it was a royal estate and it was the site of the Battle of Basing on or about 22 January 871 AD, when a Viking army defeated King Æthelred of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great. [4]
Records show a barn being built in 1523 by Sir William Molyneux on the corner of the street where it meets Cheapside. [3] The barn was used to store tithes. Parts of the barn survived into the early 1900s. May 1850 saw the opening of a railway station, which would come to be known as Liverpool Exchange. [4]
Although the line was built in 1879 by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, it was not until 1 February 1933 that Besses o' th' Barn railway station was opened by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, to cater for a large new housing development in the area. In 1992 the station, which had been on the British Rail network, was transferred to ...
Besses o' th' Barn tram stop is on the electrified line from Manchester Victoria to Bury. The station closed for eight months for conversion to Metrolink use, re-opening on 6 April 1992. A three-layer bridge enables Bury Old Road to run under the Manchester Metrolink line by the Metrolink station and over the M60 motorway near Junction 17. [2]
The Barn Plaza shopping center, in Doylestown Township, is currently home to Kohl’s, Pure Barre, Piccolo Trattoria, Gerhard’s Appliances, Mattress Firm, Club Pilates, AFC Urgent Care and more.
The nearby 'Great Barn' was completed in 1534, just before a visit from Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. In its final form, Basing House comprised two linked houses. The "Old House" replaced the keep of an older ringwork castle, [ 3 ] so was located within a defensive ring of earthworks and walls , whilst the slightly later "New House" was located ...
The Basingas were an Old English tribe, whose territory in the Loddon Valley formed a regio or administrative subdivision of the early Kingdom of Wessex. [1] Their leader, Basa, gave the tribe its name which survives in the names of Old Basing and Basingstoke, both in Hampshire. (The existence of both the tribe and their leader must be assumed ...
The Barn Convenience Store on KY 30 at 4600 Greenmount Bond Road is under construction and will hosting a back-to-school giveaway. School supplies, snacks and more will be offered on July 28 from ...