John Liddell was the son of John and Emily Liddell who lived at Sherfield Manor, Sherfield on Loddon, just outside Basingstoke.
In the winter of 1830 unrest amongst agricultural workers spread across southern England in the face of ‘grinding poverty’.[1] Wages were low, the
In 1968 Hampshire County Council took possession of the Tasker Collection of traction engines relating to the Waterloo Ironworks in Andover which c
The attached document tells the story of the violent burglary at Buckskin Farm, Basingstoke in 1832, and the eventual capture of the robbers.
Audleys Wood lies in the northeast corner of Cliddesden parish, its grounds separated from Hackwood Park by the road from Basingstoke to Alton.
Robert Cottle was born in Taunton in 1788, a son of Moses Cottle.
The standard gauge London and Southampton Railway, soon to be London and South Western Railway, opened to Basingstoke on 10th June 1839[1] when a s
There is only one surviving will with inventory for this period. The relationship, if any, between Denes, who died in 1572 and Robert Lyde (d.
Six wills and three inventories survive for this period. Newnham was a mixed farming village in this period and all worked on the land.
There are three surviving wills for this period which reveal a farming community.
