Baston
| Baston | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Signpost in Baston | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF114140 |
| Location: | 52°42’47"N, 0°21’7"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,469 (2011) |
| Post town: | Peterborough |
| Postcode: | PE6 |
| Dialling code: | 01778 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Kesteven |
Baston is a village on the edge of The Fens in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire. The 2011 census reported the parish had 1,469 people in 555 households.
Like most fen-edge parishes, Baston was laid out more than a thousand years ago, in an elongated form, to afford the produce from a variety of habitats for the villagers. The village itself lies along the road between King Street, a road built in the second century, and Baston Fen which is on the margin of the much bigger Deeping Fen. Until the nineteenth century, the heart of Deeping Fen was a common fen on which all the surrounding villages had rights of turbary, fowling and pasture.
History
A significant Roman feature of Baston is the Roman road leading across the fen towards Spalding. Part of the modern fen road follows it.
At the end of the village, near King Street, was an Anglo-Saxon cemetery which was in use up to about the year 500: the early days of the 'Coming of the English' into Britain. The cemetery, of funerary urns, was found by Rev. Edward Trollope in 1851. He found around 10 burials in 1863 and traces of another 16 were found in 1963[1]
A possible plague burial, fomr the ill days of the Black Death, was uncovered during the building of a corn dryer.[2]
The 'Baston Pig' was a name for the Lincolnshire Curly Coat pig.
Sport
- Football: Baston Football Club, formed in 2005, which plays its home games at Brudenell Playing Field in Baston
There are tennis courts for year-round use.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Baston) |
- Information on Baston from GENUKI
- Baston in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 350443 – Urn Field farm
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 350526 – Plague burial
- Mayes, P. & Dean, M.J. An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Baston Lincolnshire The Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. (1976) ISBN 0-904680-05-3
- Phillips, C.W. ed. The Fenland in Roman Times Royal Geographical Society (1970)