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Millard, J. E., Baigent, F. J. (1889). A History of the Ancient Town and Manor of Basingstoke in the County of Southampton: With a Brief Account of the Siege of Basing House, A. D. 1643-1645. United Kingdom: C.J.
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The subdivision of the Basingas retained a role beyond the Anglo-Saxon period as Basingstoke remained the administrative centre for a distinctive grouping of
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Settlement patterns suggest the existence of a town at Basingstoke attached to the nearby oppidum of
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governance of the town. They appear to have been subsumed into the Kingdom of
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Old Basing was first settled around 700 by an Old English tribe known as the
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early in its formation, as they are not mentioned as a distinct tribe in the
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in the early sixth century. In subsequent generations they took over
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settled the eastern outskirts of Basingstoke concurrent with the
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or administrative subdivision of the early Kingdom of
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(1973). 64:Roman conquest of Britain 163: 185:Yorke, Barbara (1995), 118:) is mentioned in the 973:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 582:Nox-gaga and Oht-gaga 120:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1019:History of Hampshire 617:Frithuwald's Sūþrīge 76:Noviomagus Reginorum 255:Ekwall, E. (1940). 114:. Their territory ( 409:Lists of monarchs 139:Ethelred of Wessex 1001: 1000: 988:Mercian Supremacy 498:Spalda (Spalding) 68:Calleva Atrebatum 1026: 405:Wiglaf of Mercia 291: 284: 277: 268: 267: 261: 260: 252: 246: 240: 234: 233: 232:. 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Index

Old English
Loddon Valley
regio
Wessex
Old Basing
Basingstoke
Hampshire
Winklebury
Roman conquest of Britain
Calleva Atrebatum
Venta Belgarum
Noviomagus Reginorum
Atrebates
Frankish
Alamannia
de facto
Wessex
Tribal Hidage
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Vikings
Battle of Basing
Ethelred of Wessex
Domesday Book
hundreds
Hampshire
Middle Ages


Wessex in the early Middle Ages
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