Bassingthorpe cum Westby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bassingthorpe-cum-Westby, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the G.N.R., 2 miles SSE of Great Ponton station, and 3 NNW of Corby. It includes the hamlet of Westby, and its post town is Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Corby. Acreage, 1811; population, 138. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £113 with residence; and it is in the gift of the Earl of Dysart. The church is an ancient fabric of stone in the Early Norman style.
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 | Basingthorpe Thomas à Becket | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Beltisloe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Bassingthorpe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1541-1911 | 1541-1835 | 1542-1911 |
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 Bassingthorpe cum Westby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Basingthorpe (Thomas à Becket))
Maps
Online maps of Bassingthorpe cum Westby 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury