The geophysical survey is believed to show what could be faint signs of Civil War trenches Possible evidence of an English Civil War siege has emerged following a survey of the Hampshire countryside.

In the cold autumn of 1643 Susan Rodway wrote to ‘my king love’, her husband Robert. A candlemaker by trade, he was away fighting for Parliament and she hadn’t heard much from him, unlike her ...

About 50 miles south-west of London, within earshot of the grumbling traffic on the M3 and the tangle of Basingstoke’s ring roads and roundabouts, there is a thoroughly confusing visitor attraction.

In 1601, Queen Elizabeth I made her third visit to the magnificent mansion of Basing House, near Basingstoke, writes Mark Turnbull. It proved to be her last, for she died two years later, leaving the ...

Sent to defend Basing House, they endured more than two years of siege warfare, that cruellest of human experiments, brought to vivid life – and death – in Jessie Childs’s compelling retelling. The ...

Basing House today is a semi-circle of grassy lumps and an enigmatic and shabby brick wall. Yet its neglected tale is well worth telling, as Jessie Childs shows in her compellingly readable book.

The remains of a grand Hampshire house destroyed during the English Civil War are being unearthed for the first time in more than a century. Experts from York and Southampton universities are leading ...

Possible evidence of an English Civil War siege has emerged following a survey of the Hampshire countryside. Geophysical studies of Basingstoke Common show what experts think could be a trench system ...