Lychpit's now the name of a modern housing development adjacent to Old Basing near Basingstoke, Hampshire. The modern development started in the early 1980s but the area has an ancient past associated with that of Old Basing. The name derives from a wooded dell that still exists at the western end of Little Basing. Lych or Lich being the Old English name for a corpse, it's assumed that the pit was therefore some kind of mass burial ground, local tradition associating it with the Danish victory o… (More on Lychpit)