Basildon, Berkshire
The Romans built a road through the parish between Silchester to Dorchester-on-Thames and a wealthy Romano-Briton erected a farm and villa alongside this.[5] The churchyard is notable as the resting place of Jethro Tull, the 18th century agriculturalist, whose modern gravestone can be seen there.[citation needed] This replaced the temporary place of worship, located on the corner of Bethesda Street and Blandy's Lane, which was built in 1895.His grandson dissipated his fortune[citation needed] and so mistreated his wife that he ended up caricatured as Bill Sikes in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist.The Morrison family built up an art collection which included works by Constable, Da Vinci, Hogarth, Holbein, Poussin, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Rubens, Titian, Turner and Van Dyck.[citation needed] Part of the surviving collection hangs at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, where their descendants live.
Basildon (disambiguation)Civil parishBerkshire2011 censusDensityOS grid referenceUnitary authorityWest BerkshireCeremonial countyRegionSouth EastCountryEnglandSovereign statePost townPostcode districtDialling codePoliceThames ValleyRoyal BerkshireAmbulanceSouth CentralUK ParliamentReading West and Mid BerkshireEnglishUpper BasildonLower BasildonRiver ThamesReadingLondonOxfordparishOxfordshireGoringWhitchurch-on-ThamesPangbourneBradfieldAshampsteadStreatleyunitary authorityNewburyparliamentary constituencyDomesday BookIron Agequarter staterCommiusBronze AgeGrim's DitchRomansSilchesterDorchester-on-ThamesRomano-BritonBrunelGreat Western Railwaycivil parishesNorman ConquestBlack DeathBasildon HouseSir Francis SykesJ. M. W. TurnerMaidenhead Railway BridgeThealeBeale Wildlife Parkwildlife parkBasildon ParkThames TravelGrade I listedSt Bartholomew's ChurchChurches Conservation TrustJethro TullagriculturalistSt StephenNational TrustJohn CarrFrancis SykesEast India CompanynabobsCharles DickensOliver TwistJames MorrisonConstableDa VinciHogarthHolbeinPoussinRembrandtReynoldsRubensTitianVan DyckSudeley CastleGloucestershireBritish Agricultural RevolutionCharles Fane, 1st Viscount FaneCharles Fane, 2nd Viscount FaneGeorge FaneSir Henry FaneAllen Francis GardinerZululandDurbanSouth AfricaElspeth HansonLangton Iliffe, 2nd Baron IliffeDorothy Montagu, Countess of SandwichSir Francis Sykes, 1st BaronetstationeryBasildon BondJames Archibald MorrisonHungerfordThatchamAldermastonAldworthBeech HillBeedonBeenhamBoxfordBrightwaltonBrimptonBuckleburyBurghfieldCatmoreChaddleworthChieveleyCold AshComptonEast Garston