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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The Barbary's Denby Rd
Hi I have just been given a batch of school reports belonging to my mother Patricia Barbary. Two reports are from Hearnville Road school 1949 & 1952. The rest is when she attended The Rosa Bassett School, Streatham. ...Read more
A memory of Balham by
Where Are You Celia
1958/9 Stationed in the Radio School RAF Compton Bassett I met my first true love Celia from Edinburgh. Always wondered what happened to her after we last met RAF St mawgon,just before I was posted to Germany!
A memory of Compton Bassett by
Great Grandfather
It is strange to see one of the two portraits that hung in my grandparents' hallway, for sale on the web. Issac was born in 1837 in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire. Taught himself to read and write while an agricultural labourer, ...Read more
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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
Re Story Of Tales From My Father
I still hear all the tales of those days from my father,who spent his holidays at Number 37 with the Offer family and was sent there during the Second World War as a child, he also knew your father Reginald ...Read more
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Living In The Village
We moved to Compton Bassett in 1957 when I was 11 and lived there until my father died in 1986. My parents were George Edward (Ted) Jones and Lucy. First we lived in Dugdales Farm house with Mr and Mrs Monck, and then ...Read more
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More Corwen Memories
It was abuot 1950, and we were having what we called PT lessons, the infants teacher Miss Olwen Davies had us playing 'What's the time, Mr Wolf?, culminating with 'Miss' (the wolf) turning and chasing us, shouting "Dinner ...Read more
A memory of Corwen in 1950 by
Lovely Friendship At Raf Compton Bassett
When I was posted to Compton Bassett in 1951 I was feeling rather low, and remained so until I formed a friendship (just friendship) with a lovely girl, a member of the WRAF known as 'Woodie' My ...Read more
A memory of Compton Bassett in 1951 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
Skiddery Rock
I remember as a child sliding down 'skiddery rock'. It seemed so large at the time. Alas, most of it has now disappeared beneath the 'new' promenade. The rock was a large inclined slab behind the 'top' Bassett's Cafe.
A memory of Looe in 1955 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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