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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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
A memory of Compton Bassett by
In The Past
I was born and bred in Werrington, Staffs. I wrote in 2010, that nine or ten of us still met up for a meal at the Ash Bank Hotel, in 2016 that number has grown to 20-23. Although most live away, they still come; we mostly ...Read more
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Childhood
I lived in Balham from the year I was born until 1963 when my family moved. I went to Henry Cavendish School and remember the swimming pool being built after a lot of fund raising. Mr Bassett was the music teacher and wrote many musicals ...Read more
A memory of Balham
Wycliffe Road
I lived in 31 Wycliffe Road just down from where the chimney sweep kept his soot. A number of films were shot in the "courts" between the streets Beaufoy Road and Bassnett Road. I moved in 1965 aged 11 not long after the area was ...Read more
A memory of Battersea 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!
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Wartime Evacuee
I lived with a lovely Welsh family in a cottage, on the road down to the viaduct, I have forgotten the road name. The Gwaun-cae- Gurwen Juniors School was nearby; I attended that school ,my foster sister Esther Mary Davies ...Read more
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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
The Kennels, Alice Brown
My auntie Alice ran the kennels in Berwick Bassett in a lovely old cottage with outside toilet and no electricity, I loved going to visit , she was very kind to me and let me help out with walking and feeding the dogs, ...Read more
A memory of Berwick Bassett by
The Waldrons
I was born in Mayday Hospital, lived in Croydon in 1952 with my family and Aunty Cis (Bassett) in the Waldrons and I remember playing in the spinney opposite the house. I remember the house being very big but then I was young. The last ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1965
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
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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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