Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe

{{Short description|Civil parish in Lincolnshire, England}}

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| official_name= Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe

| civil_parish = Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe

| country= England

| region= East Midlands

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| shire_district= South Kesteven

| shire_county= Lincolnshire

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| population =157

| population_ref = (2011 census)

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Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe is a civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 154 across 59 homes.{{cite web|title=Neighbourhood statistics|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790460|work=2001 census|publisher=Office for national statistics|accessdate=20 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064708/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790460|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} By the 2011 census there were 157 households, made of 366 people.{{cite web|title=Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120794&c=bitchfield&d=16&e=62&g=6482018&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1366828304101&enc=1|work=2011 census|publisher=Office for national statistics|accessdate=24 April 2013}}

The civil parish includes the villages of Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe, and the hamlet of Westby. Boothby Pagnell and Burton Coggles are neighbouring parishes.

There are no major roads through the parish, though the London-Edinburgh railway line passes through the extreme western edge. The parish is crossed by the B1176 Corby Glen to Grantham road, which passes through Bitchfield. Several small streams rise in the western half of the parish, and flow eastwards into the West Glen River which flows through the parish from North to South. Bassingthorpe manor has a spot height of 106m, and the land rises above the 115m contour near Stoke railway tunnel. The terrain slopes down eastward to the shallow valley of the glen, which lies between two 70m contours. Toward the eastern boundary the land rises again to about 90m.{{cite map |publisher=Ordnance survey of Great Britain |title=Grantham: Bottesford & Colsterworth |date=3 January 2006 |scale=1:25 000 |series=OS Explorer |section=247 |edition=A1 |isbn=9780319238332}}

Busses on route 4 from Grantham to Stamford pass through the parish.{{cite web|title=Route 4|url=http://www.centrebus.info/Documents/4%20-%20Grantham%20-%20Stamford.pdf|work=Timetables|publisher=Centrebus|accessdate=13 August 2013}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Local democracy takes the form of a parish meeting.{{cite web|url=http://moderngov.southkesteven.gov.uk/mgParishCouncilDetails.aspx?ID=410|title=Parish Meeting|publisher=SKDC|accessdate=24 April 2013}}