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The Victoria History of Hampshire: Medieval Basingstoke (Paperback)
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The Victoria History of Hampshire: Medieval Basingstoke (Paperback)
Series: VCH Shorts
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Loot Price R588
Discovery Miles 5 880
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Basingstoke is frequently seen as a very modern town, the product
of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long,
rich and prosperous history. From its beginnings c.1000 it became a
significant market centre for the area around, and a place on the
route to London from the west. By 1500 it was among the top 60
towns in England by wealth and taxpayers, and the centre of a major
industrial area, whose manufactured cloths formed part of
international patterns of trade. Moreover, it is well documented
particularly for the 15th and 16th century, when it was at its
peak, and should provide a useful addition to the limited number of
studies of small medieval towns. Much of the old town has been
swept away by the shopping centre, but something of the medieval
footprint survives in its street beyond this, in a few surviving
buildings and above all in its magnificent church. This book
examines these features as well as the families, whether outsiders
or locals, who made the most of the new thriving economic
conditions, and whose dynamism helped create the town's expansion.
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