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.