Editing Old Basing (section)

==Etymology==
The name Basing comes from two [[Old English]] components: ''Basa'', the name of an Anglo-Saxon tribal leader, and the suffix ''-ingas'', meaning "people of". This origin is shared with Basingstoke, which came from adding the additional component ''stoc'', meaning "secondary farm/settlement", reflecting that Basing was originally the larger settlement.<ref name="oldbasingpc">{{cite web| year = 2006| url = http://www.oldbasing.gov.uk/profile.htm#history| title = Old Basing & Lychpit Parish History| publisher = Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council| access-date = 3 June 2007|url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111001122400/http://www.oldbasing.gov.uk/profile.htm#history| archive-date = 1 October 2011| df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=A Dictionary of English Place-Names|last=Mills|first=A.D.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1991|isbn=0-19-869156-4|location=Oxford|pages=26}}</ref> The [[adjective]] ''Old'' was added officially in the latter half of the 20th century (between 1968 and 1986 according to OS maps); a 1911 local history referred to the village as Basing, with Old Basing listed as an alternative name.<ref>'Parishes: Basing or Old Basing', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 115-127. British History Online [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp115-127] [accessed 2 March 2023]</ref>