Why visit Baston
Townapedia lists 7 museums and landmarks, 3 parks and trails, 5 places to eat and 1 place to stay in and around town.
Highlights include Car Dyke, Baston Fen and Thurlby Fen Slipe Nature Reserve.
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About Baston
Baston is a village and parish on the edge of The Fens and in the administrative district of South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. The 2011 census reported the parish had 1,469 people in 555 households.
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Museums and landmarks7
Parks, trails and playgrounds3
Restaurants and cafes5
The Black Horse
Bar and pub
Main Street, Peterborough
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Where to stay1
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 Anglian cemetery which was in use up to about the year 500. This coincides approximately with the date of the beginning of King Arthur's exploits, as reported by the Historia Brittonum, when Arthur fought his first battle at the mouth of the River Glen and stopped the spread of Anglo-Saxon settlement for fifty years. The Anglo-Saxon 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
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Baston Manor House is a 16th-century structure which was altered and extended in the 17th, late 18th, late 19th and early 20th centuries. The manor house has been Grade II listed since 1952. Also listed are the Manor House's two sets of 18th-century stables, one to the east (now a garage) and another to the west which is listed along with a granary. In the 19th century the Manor House was owned by Robert Marriott a noted horse-breeder who won many prizes at local agricultural shows, he lived there until 1876. The house was later bought by Francis Knipe in 1888 when he had 120 bullocks and 600 sheep. Over 300 blue rock pigeons were kept in the dovecote at the Manor House in past times, and were released for sport in the days before clay pigeon shooting.
Like most places in Europe, Baston suffered from the plague. Some Baston plague victims are shown in burial lists. A possible plague burial was uncovered during the building of a corn dryer.
The 'Baston Pig' was a name for the Lincolnshire Curly Coat pig.
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Geography
Geographically, in the fen, the parish's northern boundary lies on the River Glen, beyond which is Thurlby. To the south is Langtoft and beyond King Street in the west is Greatford.
The parish lies on a fan of gravel from the Devensian glacial period, which spreads from the upland mouth of the valley of the River Welland, to the east of Stamford, Lincolnshire. There are two main forms of business in the parish: arable farming and gravel extraction. The flooded gravel pits subsequently lend themselves to development for leisure pursuits such as angling, birdwatching and watersports. The gravel was washed down from the tundra environment to the west and deposited in the periglacial lake, known as Lake Fenland, below the icy waters of which the site of Baston then lay.
Education
Independent special school Kirkstone House School has been in the village since 1964.
Baston CE Primary School was opened in the village in July 1993.
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Notable people from Baston
Mark GrayBritish snooker and pool playerPhoto: Christian Werner ; upload by Tmv23, CC BY 3.0
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Churches and places of worship5
Gas and EV charging1
Schools, colleges and libraries3
Map of Baston
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Getting there and nearby towns
RAF Coningsby (QCY) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 27 miles away.
- Market Deeping 3 mi southeast, about 5 min by car
- Bourne 4 mi north, about 6 min by car
- Ryhall 5 mi west, about 8 min by car
- Glinton 6 mi southeast, about 9 min by car
- Stamford 7 mi southwest, about 11 min by car
- Easton on the Hill 9 mi southwest, about 14 min by car
- Spalding 10 mi northeast, about 16 min by car
- Castor 10 mi south, about 16 min by car
- Corby Glen 10 mi northwest, about 16 min by car
- Peterborough 11 mi southeast, about 17 min by car
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- Stained glass window, St guthlac's church, Market Deeping (19113156591), Jules & Jenny from Lincoln, UK, CC BY 2.0
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