Lychpit (Q6707271)

  • matcher place: Basingstoke and Deane (relation 127249), Hampshire (relation 2698314), Basingstoke (relation 4171809)
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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lychpit is now the name of a modern housing development adjacent to Old Basing near Basingstoke, Hampshire. The modern development started in the early 1980s but the area has an ancient past associated with that of Old Basing. The name derives from a wooded dell that still exists at the western end of Little Basing. Lych or Lich being the Old English name for a corpse, it is assumed that the pit was therefore some kind of mass burial ground, local tradition associating it with the Danish victory over Alfred's Saxons at the Battle of Basing in 871. Another possibility is that it was used to bury casualties of the Battle of Basing House, where Oliver Cromwell's troops laid siege to and eventually sacked this large private house. Several of the local roads bear the names of Cromwell's officers e.g. Norton Ride and Gage Close.

Wikidata location: 51.2705, -1.0525 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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relation: Old Basing and Lychpit (OSM)exact location match [show tags]
name: Old Basing and Lychpit
source: OS_OpenData_Boundary-Line
ref:gss: E04004469
website: https://www.oldbasing.gov.uk/
boundary: administrative
wikidata: Q20948963
admin_level: 10
designation: civil_parish

wikidata mismatch: Q20948963
node: Lychpit (OSM), 0.80 miles from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Lychpit
place: suburb
wikidata: Q6707271

wikidata match: Q6707271

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village (Q532) place=village
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