Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BASSINGTHORPE

BASSINGTHORPE, a parish in Grantham district, Lincoln; on the Great Northern railway; 2 miles SSE of Great Ponton station, and 3 NNW of Corby. It includes the hamlet of Westby; and its Post Town is Corby, under Grantham. Acres, 1,790. Real property, £2,017. Pop., 154. Houses, 31. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £230. Patron, the Earl of Dysart.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bassingthorpe CP/AP       Grantham RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Bassingthorpe

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