Whitchurch in north Hampshire was used as a Parliamentary post in 1644 to cover the road from London to Salisbury and the west, and to watch the Royalist garrison at Basing House from the north-west. Parliamentary cavalry at Whitchurch could intercept Royalist communications between Basing and the Royalist army at Oxford along the northern Hampshire lanes.
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