Places
18 places found.
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- Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
- North Weald Bassett, Essex
- Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire
- Compton Bassett, Wiltshire
- Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire
- Letcombe Bassett, Oxfordshire
- Bassett, Yorkshire
- Bassett, Hampshire
- Dunton Bassett, Leicestershire
- Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire
- Charney Bassett, Oxfordshire
- Thorpe Bassett, Yorkshire
- Winterbourne Bassett, Wiltshire
- Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire
- Bassett Green, Hampshire
- Preston, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- The Common, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- Green Hill, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
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Memories
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Grand National Winners 1972. 1980. 1985.
I was a farrier in Letcombe Bassett from 1964 till 1986. We had three grand national winners; Well To Do - 1972, Ben Nevis -1980 and Last Suspect in 1985. We all had a great time when the horses came ...Read more
A memory of Letcombe Bassett in 1995 by
International Camp School
I went to international camp school in 1974, 75 and 76. These years were my most beautifull. I was 18 and found there my first big love. A young boy called Paul coming from Newcastle. I spent there 3 times 2 weeks full ...Read more
A memory of Bellingham in 1974 by
This And That Concerning My Short Stay In Compton Bassett
My memory of Compton Bassett is not extensive - to say the least - as I spent roughly a year in married quarters before my husband was posted to Bordon in Hampshire. He was in the ...Read more
A memory of Compton Bassett in 1974 by
1973
Hi, I lived in lots of places when I was young including Pewsey, Marlborough where I was born, Hook near Wootton Bassett, and Wootton Rivers. My memories of Milton were living at No3 The Crossroads opposite the garage, until 1973 when ...Read more
A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1973 by
Memories, Stirred
Have just stumbled on this site and the entries about Worksop and Carlton have stirred a few memories. I lived in Worksop from 1956 to 1979. Shops: MacFisheries, an old fashioned W H Smith. Machin's hardware, the brilliant C V ...Read more
A memory of Worksop in 1970 by
Little Sutton Shops
Just a few memories of what shops were there in Little Sutton around the time this photograph was taken, starting on the near left of the picture you had the food CO-OP, the white church followed by the fruit and veg shop, ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1969 by
Bassett House
The large oblong building on the left was Bassett House of which the ground floor was Waitrose. The Bassett Family lived at Hunters Lodge, Banstead and the three children grew up to represent England. Sheena in running and swimming ...Read more
A memory of Banstead in 1967 by
Little Sutton Shops
The church was the Presbyterian and the fruit and veg shop also sold fish (Tommy Jones, fish). There was a furniture shop (Flackets) On the corner of Ledsham was Miss (although a Mrs.) Locket’s. Over Ledsham past the ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1967
Priors Hill
We as a family (the Olleys) lived for the first 14 years of my life on Priors Hill. I remeber having to go to Jackson's shop and Dick Preddy's for shopping, bread for my mum - a collie dog used to chase me every time down bakers road ...Read more
A memory of Wroughton in 1966 by
Franciscan School And Brudenell Road
My name in the 1960's was Pamela Ambridge. I was born in 1958 and went to Hillbrook Infant School. I remember the teachers there were; Mrs Tinkler (nice), Miss Bedford (she smacked me!) and Miss Shoot (nice). ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1965 by
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According to Christine Smith (author of 'Sutton Coldfield under the Earls of Warwick'), on the death of Richard I (Richard the Lionheart), Lord Bassett enclosed a hunting ground - Bassett's Heath
Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.
The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.
The church was designed by W Bassett Smith of London and built at a cost of £3,320; it was consecrated on 11 May 1869.
RAF Compton Bassett was built on farmland mainly in Calne and Cherhill parishes, and operated from 1940 to 1964.
At its head is Watermouth Castle, built in 1825 for Joseph Davie Bassett.
It was closed as a school in the 1970s, and is now the Wootton Bassett Civic Centre.
It is not difficult to see why Thomas Hardy used Letcombe Bassett as the setting for the fictional village of Cresscombe in his novel Jude The Obscure.
This hill figure cut in the chalk lies on the face of Hackpen Hill, to the right of the road from Wootton Bassett to Marlborough, where it zigzags to climb the hill.
On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.
Drayton Bassett is situated four miles south of Tamworth.
On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.
Portreath's first pier was built in 1760 by Francis Basset, a member of one of Cornwall's most prominent mining families.
Colyford was established by Thomas Basset as a new borough in the 1200s.
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