Old Basing: Basing House 
Description
Once one of the largest houses in Britain, with 300+ rooms, this was a spectacular Tudor Mansion, but with the family siding with the Royalists in the English Civil War it's days were numbered. After a series of sieges it finally fell to the Parliamentarian forces and was subsequently destroyed. Today just the Great Barn and a couple of the buildings of the farm, plus the walled garden, exist. The site of the Old House is just a set of ruins atop of the baily fortification that failed to protect the house from the destructive wrath of the Civil War. You can walk around the whole site of the Old House and the neighbouring New House (of which nothing survives). You can also visit the Great Barn if it isn't being used for a wedding
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Getting There
From Basingstoke the number 10 bus runs from the bus station to Old Basing around every 2 hours, taking 10 minutes (Monday to Saturday only). Alternatively the number 14 runs irregularly (Monday to Saturday) and the 7 runs every 30 minutes (Sundays only) towards Chineham. Getting off at Saxon Way, less than 10 minutes after leaving the bus station and then walking 10-15 minutes gets you to Basing House. The other option is the relatively pleasant and flat 2 mile walk from the town centre through Eastrop Park and along the abandoned canal.Latitude: 51.270511; Longitude: -1.0536468
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