Lychpit

Lychpit, Old Basing
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Old Basing
Hampshire
Lickpit
Lychpit
otherwise: licepyt, 945-14; Lichepet, 1086; Likeputte, 1236
- farm
refce: Coates 1989
LICKPIT/LYCHPIT, farm in Basing
From Old English 'licapytt'='corpse pit'. Early spellings point to an analogical palatalized genitive plural of 'lic' viz. hypothetical 'licea' unless the 'e' simply marks the palatality of the 'c' in 'lic'. The source of the corpses is unknown; Gover suggests it was a plague pit, but local tradition associates it with the aftermath of the Danish victory at the battle of Basing in 871.
refce: Coates 1989
LICKPIT, LYCHPIT, Domesday Book manor in Basing
Probably hypothetical Old English 'Licapytt'='pit of corpses or skeletons'. The historical facts behind the name are unknown.
domesday
 Lichepet
Listed in Domesday Book
- Basingestoc Hundred - Hantescire - St Peter's Abbey - Winchester parish: - Hampshire
Period - 11th century
refce: Domesday Book 1086 (6.7)
SCI~ PETRI DE WINTONIA ... Isd~e Hugo ten. LICHEPET de abbatia S~ Petri ...
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001