Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BASSINGBOURNE

BASSINGBOURNE, a village and a parish in the district of Royston and county of Cambridge. The village stands 3 miles NNW of Royston r. station, has a post office under Royston, and was formerly a market town. The parish includes also the hamlet of Kneesworth. Acres, 4,223. Real property, £10,396. Pop., 2,213. Houses, 415. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £224.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is of the 14th century. There are an Independent chapel, a British school, and charities £2l.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bassingbourn CP/AP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Bassingbourn

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