The Royalist garrison held Basing House for over two years — the longest siege of the Civil War. When Cromwell's troops stormed it, the playwright Inigo Jones was among those dragged out naked. The house was then demolished.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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