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Hampshire

 There are eleven surviving wills and ten inventories for this period. They reflect a farming community with sheep, cattle and crops.

Wills and inventories dating from 1541-1707 have been transcribed by the Wills Group of the New Victoria County of Hampshire project, based in Basi

Cliddesden parish lies two miles to the south of Basingstoke, now separated from it by the M3.

Victorian Asylum to Psychiatric Hospital

When the decision was taken to rewrite the Hampshire volumes in the modern style, Basingstoke was selected as the first area for study because of i

Old Basing is a substantial settlement 2 miles east of Basingstoke. 

St Michael's Church Cottage, Basingstoke: Uses and Occupants

The Basingstoke Triumphal Gateway

The 233 names on the town memorial represent only a small proportion of Basingstoke men who died serving in the First World War.

Wills of the Rectors of Cliddesden

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