VINE (The), a seat in Basingstoke parish, Hants; 2½ miles N by W of Basingstoke. It took its name from standing on a spot where the Romans first grew the vine in England; was built by Lord Sandys, in the time of Henry VIII.; passed, in 1653, to Speaker Chute, and was then greatly altered by Inigo Jones; is mentioned in Horace Walpole's letters; and belongs now to J. Chute, Esq.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))