In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bassingthorpe like this:
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.
Bassingthorpe through time
Bassingthorpe is now part of South Kesteven district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Kesteven has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bassingthorpe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bassingthorpe, in South Kesteven and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11519
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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