Basing House
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Basing House was a Tudor palace and castle in the village of Old Basing in the English county of Hampshire. It once rivalled Hampton Court Palace in its size and opulence. Today only parts of the base
Entrance gate to the Basing House ruins, Old Basing.
The siege of Basing House.
An 1836 painting by Charles Landseer depicting Parliamentarian troops plundering Basing House after capturing it
Hackwood Park
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Hackwood Park is a 260-acre country estate that primarily consists of an 18th-century ornamental woodland and formal lawn garden and a 51,681 sq ft, long mansion, in light stone, of symmetrical design
Basing House
…support for William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution. This wealth was used to demolish what was left of Basing House and to build nearby a new house at Hackwood that became the new seat of the Marquesses of Winchester (later titled also Dukes of Bolton) until 1794. The prior history of the area on which this…
Hackwood Park in 1984
Stable block within the grounds of the property, used as an estate office