Strathfieldsaye

Strathfieldsaye, a Hampshire estate, with a Queen Anne mansion, overlooking the Loddon, 7 miles NNE. of Basingstoke. Associated ere that with the name of Pitt, it was purchased by parliament in 1817 of Lord Rivers for £263,000, and presented to the Duke of Wellington. A conspicuous monument, crowned by a bronzé statue of the Duke by Marochetti, was erected in 1866; and his charger, 'Copenhagen,' is buried in the grounds. See SILCHESTER, and the Rev. Charles H. Griffith's History of Strathfieldsaye (1892).