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 8 1/2 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, which 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
