Baston
Sign in to saveBaston 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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Place details
- Locality
- South Kesteven
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,444
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Baston
- UK place.static_image_name
- Village sign detail, Baston, Lincs - geograph.org.uk - 453235.jpg
- UK place.static_image_alt
- Closeup of village sighn, with a blue sky and green tree in the background. The sign is framed like a medieval barn, around a low relief carving, painted in realistic colours, featuring a stream with a Roman soldier on the right and an 18th century smock mill on the left.
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Signpost in Baston
- UK place.population
- 1,469
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 census)
- UK place.shire_district
- South Kesteven
- UK place.shire_county
- Lincolnshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.post_town
- PETERBOROUGH
- UK place.postcode_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Kesteven
- Population
- +1444
- Image
- Village sign detail, Baston, Lincs - geograph.org.uk - 453235.jpg
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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.
Like most fen-edge parishes, it 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.