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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]
Old Basing was first settled around 700 by an Old English tribe known as the Basingas, who give the village its name (the meaning is "Basa's people"). [5] It was the site of the Battle of Basing on 22 January 871, when a Danish army defeated Ethelred of Wessex. It is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
The focal point of the village is the cross roads right in the centre where Basingstoke Road meets Ewhurst Lane and Monk Sherborne road. Christ Church is located on one of the corners with the village hall nearby. Events in Ramsdell include weekly cricket matches in the summer months, a bi-annual Fete [1] and an annual village tennis tournament ...
[5] [c] Basing, now Old Basing, a village 2 miles (3 km) to the east, is thought to have the same etymology, and was the original Anglo-Saxon settlement of the people – Basingas – led by a tribal chief called Basa. Basing remained the main settlement until changes in the local church moved the religious base from St Marys Church, Basing, to ...
Basing House was a Tudor palace and castle in the village of Old Basing in the English county of Hampshire. [1] It once rivalled Hampton Court Palace in its size and opulence. Today only parts of the basement or lower ground floor, plus the foundations and earthworks, remain.
Current events; Random article; ... Basing can refer to: Old Basing, a village in the English county of Hampshire Basing House, ...
Next to Lychpit is a public house and restaurant making use of an old water mill on the River Loddon, a tributary of the River Thames. The river is well-stocked with trout and visitors to the pub can sometimes see kingfishers that hunt along the river banks, despite the roar of frequent trains overhead on the London line.
The house that was Old Basing Mill, a corn mill in 1932, [4] Barton's Mill, is 95 metres north. Early 20th century watercress beds continued just north. [ 4 ] A suburban hill road with access to a wooded east Basingstoke neighbourhood and key roads of Old Basing are linked by a brick, three-arch bridge of three arches over the Loddon; funded by ...