__NOTOC__ Bassingham is a village and

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in the

North Kesteven North Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The district is located to the east of Nottinghamshire, north-east of Leicestershire and south of the city of Lincoln. Its council, North Kesteven District Council, is bas ...

district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,425. The village is situated approximately south-west from the city and

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. Bassingham is situated about midway between

Newark-on-Trent Newark-on-Trent or Newark () is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the River Trent, and was historically a major inland port. The A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road bypasses th ...

and Lincoln. The parish is defined by the

River Witham The River Witham is a river almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham at , passes through the centre of Grantham (where it may be closely followed using the Riversid ...

to the west, and the

River Brant The River Brant is a tributary of the River Witham that flows entirely in the county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. In 1855 the River was described as follows; "Brant, a tributary of the Witham in the western part of the county of Linc ...

to the east (across Bassingham Fen). To the south-west is

Carlton-le-Moorland Carlton-le-Moorland, is a long-established village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, between the town of Newark-on-Trent and the city and county town of Lincoln. The parish population at the 2011 census w ...

. A

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, '' HMS Bassingham'', was named after the village. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was recorded in the

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of 1086. The church is in the Bassingham Group of seven churches. In 1998 the church added a seventh bell: the ship's bell from HMS Bassingham, presented by her former commander after she was decommissioned. It hangs in a mahogany bell hood in the north

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and is rung to signal the start of Sunday worship. Bassingham has two

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, the Five Bells and the Bugle Horn, a primary school, and a Methodist chapel.

References

External links

*
Village website

Primary school

Withamside United Parish

NKDC page
* Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire North Kesteven District {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub