History
Lewisham Castle is a small medieval ringwork about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west of the village. It is not certain whether it was in fact a castle.
During the English Civil War Prince Rupert and his Cavaliers fought the Parliamentarian Army in a skirmish at Aldbourne Chase on the 18th September 1643, two days before the First Battle of Newbury.
Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne Division was based at Aldbourne in the weeks before D-Day. Easy Company was featured in the HBO series Band of Brothers.
In 1971 BBC Television used Aldbourne extensively as a location for the village of Devil's End in its science fiction drama Doctor Who in a series called The Daemons. St Michael's parish church was destroyed at the climax of the series and one viewer wrote to complain about this wanton piece of destruction for the sake of drama, but the BBC had used a model for this special effect.
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