Bassingham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bassingham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The parish lies on the river Witham, 4 miles S of Swinderby station on the M.R., and 8½ NE of Newark, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 3057; population, 648. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £600 with residence, in the gift of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church, wliicli is an ancient building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles, was restored in 1861. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. The village possesses two corn mills, a brewery, and a malthouse.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bassingham St. Michael | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Bassingham 1572-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Bassingham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1572-1911 | 1754-1802 | 1572-1911 | 1572-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bassingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bassingham (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Bassingham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: