Old Basing

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Old Basing
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The Street, Old Basing
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Old Basing
Location within Hampshire
Population7,232 
OS grid reference SU664528
•  London 49.6 miles (79.8 km)
Civil parish
  • Old Basing and Lychpit
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Basingstoke
Postcode district RG24
Dialling code 01256
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51°16′13″N1°02′50″W / 51.2704°N 1.0473°W / 51.2704; -1.0473

Old Basing is a village in Hampshire, England, just east of Basingstoke. It was called Basengum in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Basinges in the Domesday Book.

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Etymology

The name Basing comes from two Old English components: Basa, the name of an Anglo-Saxon tribal leader, and the suffix -ingas, meaning "people of". This origin is shared with Basingstoke, which came from adding the additional component stoc, meaning "secondary farm/settlement", reflecting that Basing was originally the larger settlement. [1] [2] The adjective Old was added officially in the 20th century; a 1911 local history referred to the village as Basing, with Old Basing listed as an alternative name. [3]

History

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] It is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 AD.

The centre of the village, The Street, contains many old houses, and St Mary's Church. The River Loddon, whose source is in Worting to the west of Basingstoke, flows through the village. Old Basing is perhaps best known for the ruins of Basing House which was built between 1532 and 1561 on the site of a Norman castle. It was the home of the Marquesses of Winchester for several generations before being destroyed after a 24-week siege during the English Civil War. Many names in modern Old Basing allude to the war, such as Cavalier Road and Musket Copse, as well as several sites named after Oliver Cromwell including Oliver's Battery andCromwell Cottage.Oliver's, a fish and chip takeaway and restaurant is named after Les Oliver who opened the restaurant in 1974.

The route of the former Basingstoke Canal also ran around Basing House and then through and around parts of Old Basing.

In the 1980s, the Lychpit estate was developed to the north of the village, within the boundaries of the civil parish. In 2006, the name of the civil parish was changed to "Old Basing and Lychpit".

Governance

The village of Old Basing is part of the civil parish of Old Basing and Lychpit [5] which in turn is part of the Basing ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. [6] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

The Basing ward elects three councillors to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and is part of the Basingstoke constituency in elections to Parliament. The current Member of Parliament for Basingstoke is Maria Miller (Conservative) and the current councillors are Onnalee Cubitt (Independent), Stephen Marks (Conservative) and Sven Godesen (Conservative).

Entrance gate to the Basing House ruins, Old Basing. Basing-House-entrance.jpg
Entrance gate to the Basing House ruins, Old Basing.

Education

Old Basing provides both an infant school and a junior school. The junior school, named St Mary's, is aided by the Church of England. A new primary school has recently opened in nearby Lychpit. There are a variety of secondary schools in the Basingstoke area.

Sport

Basing Royals F.C., founded in 2018, is the local football team. The club plays their home games at Royals Park which is part of the wider Basingstoke Common and is situated next to the Old Basing British Legion. The Recreation Ground in Old Basing is used for a variety of sporting events as well as the Old Basing Carnival. There are football pitches which overlap a cricket ground in addition to five tennis courts, an archery area and a lawn bowling green.

Literature

Edward Lear makes reference to Old Basing in his Book of Nonsense: [7]

There was an Old Person of Basing,
Whose presence of mind was amazing;
He purchased a steed,
Which he rode at full speed,
And escaped from the people of Basing.

People

Notes

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    References

    1. ↑ "Old Basing & Lychpit Parish History". Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council. 2006. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
    2. ↑ Mills, A.D. (1991). A Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 26. ISBN   0-19-869156-4.
    3. ↑ 'Parishes: Basing or Old Basing', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 115-127. British History Online [accessed 2 March 2023]
    4. ↑ Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Harlow, UK: Longman. p. 131. ISBN   0-582-04047-7.
    5. ↑ "Hampshire County Council's legal record of public rights of way in Hampshire" (PDF). 2008. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
    6. ↑ "Basingstoke and Deane Wards info". 2010. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
    7. ↑ Lear, Edward (1846). A Book of Nonsense. London: Thomas McLean.
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