Description
Bassingbourne, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands 3 miles NNW of Royston station on the G.N.R., has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Royston, and was formerly a market-town. The parish includes also the hamlet of Kneesworth. Acreage, 3381; population of the civil parish, 1828; of the ecclesiastical, 1374. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £299 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is of the 14th and the tower of the 13th century. There is also a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
