Bassingthorpe

The Library at Grantham will prove useful in your research.

J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of St. Thomas' churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.

• The parish was in the Colsterworth sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• Starting in 1891 the parish was in the "Grantham South" sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Thomas a Becket, built in the early Norman style.
   
• Saint Thomas a Becket Church is over 800 years old.
   
• The church was restored in 1904.
   
• The church seats 100 (an 1896 Directory tells us 200 are seated).
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Thomas' Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005.
   
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1542.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Beltisloe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Colsterworth sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• Starting in 1891 the parish was in the "Grantham South" sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.

Bassingthorpe is a village and a parish about 6 miles south-east of Grantham and three miles northwest of Corby. The hamlet of Westby lies in this parish. Lower Bassingthorpe is a hamlet just north of Bassingthorpe village. The parish covers about 1,800 acres.

If you are planning a visit, see:

• The village of Bassingthorpe is just east of the A1 motorway north of Colsterworth.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bassingthorpe to another place.

• Bassingthorpe Hall was the seat and property of Thomas CONEY, a rich merchant who was high sheriff of Rutland in 1573.
   
• In 1896, Bassingthorpe Hall was occupied by Mrs. John GIBSON.
   
• In the 1950s, Bassingthorpe Hall was owned by a Mr. and Mrs. POLLARD. [Valerie WELLS, 2009]
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Bassingthorpe Manor on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005.
   
• Here is a photo of the Manor House, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright), with the church in the foreground:
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK966285 (Lat/Lon: 52.845353, -0.567145), Bassingthorpe which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

For a photograph of the War Memorial plaque in the church and the names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.

• In 1202, the parish is listed as "Basewintorp", meaning "outlying farmstead or hamlet".
   
• The parish is listed in many sources as "Bassingthorpe-cum-Westby".

• This place was an ancient parish of Lincolnshire and became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Betisloe Wapentake in the South Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• This place was abolished as a Civil Parish in 1931.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and now hold periodic Parish Meetings with the residents of Bitchfield to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• For today's district governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spittlegate petty sessional hearings.
   
• The poor of the parish have the interest from £50, left by Anne FISHER in 1769.
   
• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Grantham Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	158
1841	137
1851	487
1861	154
1871	144
1881	136
1891	138
1901	129
1911	116
1921	78

• The Bitchfield Unified School District was formed in November, 1875, and included this parish. The children attended school in Bitchfield.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.