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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 ...
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]
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 name derives from a wooded dell that still exists at the western end of Little Basing. Lych or Lich being the Old English name for a corpse, it is assumed that the pit was therefore some kind of mass burial ground, local tradition associating it with the Danish victory over Alfred's Saxons at the Battle of Basing in 871. Another possibility ...
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 Lower Mill at Old Basing is a four-storey building dating from the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and is grade II listed. [31] Old Basing mill is another four-storey building, which still contained much of the original machinery in 2000, although it was not operational. [24]
Basing can refer to: Old Basing, a village in the English county of Hampshire Basing House, a Tudor palace and castle in Old Basing; Slicing (interface design) ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that the Battle of Basing was two months earlier, dating it to 22 January, Ashdown fourteen days before that on 8 January, Reading four days earlier on 4 January, Englefield another four days earlier on 31 December 870 and the arrival of the Vikings in Reading three days earlier on 28 December. However, as the ...