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Bassingham is a village in Lincolnshire.
Which can be found approximately nine miles south-south-west of Lincoln
and nine miles north-east of Newark-on-Trent.

The local church is St. Michael.

Which is believed to date back as far as the 10th century and has been rebuilt at least twice since the Norman Conquest. Towards the end of the twelfth century the church of that time fell down and is widely thought to have been a casualty of the 1185 earthquake, but it is more likely to have been caused by very bad construction.

The present gothic style building was constructed with a mixture of local oolitic limestone, which is not the best of stones as it easily crumbles. A grey depressing coloured stone which is thought to have possibly come from the Ancaster quarry and a slightly more warmer looking stone which may have been from Barnack or Ketton were used.

The Church of Saint Michael underwent a complete restoration in 1860.

The 1185 earthquake was one of the more destructive earthquakes in Britain at this period, and is the first earthquake for which there are reliable descriptions of the damage caused, records show that stone houses suffered damage or partial collapse. Although the maximum intensity of this earthquake is unclear, we can presume it was at least 8 MSK.

Nearby can also be found,
Eagle, Eagle Barnsdale, Eagle Moor, Whisby, Swallow Beck, Bracebridge Heath,
Hykeham Moor, Bracebridge Low Fields, Thorpe on the Hill, North Hykeham,
South Hykeham, Haddington, Waddington, Harmston, Swinderby, Brant Broughton
Aubourn, Thurlby, Coleby, Norton Disney, Boothby Graffoe, Carlton-le-Moorland, , Navenby, Canwick,


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