Bassingthorpe-cum-Westby, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the G.N.R., 2 miles SSE of Great Ponton station, and 3 NNW of Corby. It includes the hamlet of Westby, and its post town is Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Corby. Acreage, 1811; population, 138. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £113 with residence; and it is in the gift of the Earl of Dysart. The church is an ancient fabric of stone in the Early Norman style.
