Bassingfield Backwater Traditional Cache
northking: Container retrieved. Thanks to all of those that visited. Area seems popular with fly tippers again, so no point in trying to keep it going.
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Previously called Nuts in Notts 2. Now renamed as comp finished. This cache is situated adjacent to the Gamston Lings Bar. It is a cache and dash, the container (a cammo tube with log and pencil) is big enough for small Travel Bugs and Geocoins.
I hope that this cache will compliment the other caches placed nearby. These caches have been placed by other Geocachers (Jacaru, GedlingBullfrog & Fly2live2Fly) and can be done on a circular walk of 7 whch takes you through the village of Bassingfield and along the Grantham canal.
This cache can also be used as a springboard to the coast or further afield, with Nottingham (Tollerton) airport being nearby.
A little about the area where the cache is placed - access is possible by road and cycle, there is on/off road parking at the site.
I'm not sure whether the area should be called Gamston or Bassingfield so have found out about the history of both, acknowledgements should go to the author, however they are not named.
The Parish Council of Holme Pierrepont and Gamston comprises four ancient settlements in the Trent Valley namely Adbolton, Bassingfield, Gamston and Holme Pierrepont. There is evidence from aerial surveys and archaeology that the Trent Valley was settled by farming communities at least as long ago as the Neolithic era.
BASSINGFIELD (Basingfelt in 1086) means the open country of Bassa's people, an ing being a field. Ingfield or infield meant the "home field". There are many place-names ending in neld in Nottinghamshire but Bassingfield is the only one south of the Trent. Bassa was probably a Saxon, though there is archaeological evidence that there has been human settlement in the vicinity for some 3000 years. Bassingfield has been divided for many centuries: in 1086 William Peverel owned part of Bassingfield but Roger of Bully (or Busli) owned part too.
For centuries during the Middle Ages much of Bassingfield was "enjoyed" by the Luterells, who were Lords of the Manor of West Bridgford for some centuries before they made Dunster Castle in Somerset their principal seat: they are best known for commissioning the Luterell Psalter. An unidentified stone carving in St Giles Church known as "the Stone Man of West Bridgford - may be a memorial to Sir Robert Luterell.
Bassingfield was partly in the Parish of West Bridgford and partly in the Parish of Holme Pierrepont, which may explain why there were great lawsuits about it during the reign of King Edward I. (It may even explain why part of Bassingfield today is in NG2 while most of it is in NG12!).
Eventually Bassingfield was sold to Sir Henry Pierrepont and became part of the estate which was later owned by Robert Earl of Kingston, "whose inheritance the whole Township was; together with Boughton Grange, a single farm, unto which did belong anciently twelve oxgangs of land, dispersed in the Fields and territories of Bassingfield" (Thoroton 1790) Early in the 19th century -Boughton Lordship - was still marked on Holme Pierrepont estate maps, between the present A 52 and Holme Pierrepont.
Jesse Boot had connections with Bassingfield where he visited his grandparents William Boot (62 in 1851, agricultural labourer) and his wife Elizabeth (49, schoolmistress), who lived in the hamlet.
GAMSTON (formerly Gamal's farm, village or town) was called Gamelestune in Domesday. Gamal is an old Scandinavian name frequently found in that part of England often called the Danelaw. Like Adbolton, Gamston was owned by William Peverel but no value was given for it in 1086.
For many generations Gamston was owned by the Luterell family together with Bassingfield. In the reign of King James I John Thimbelby sold Gamston to Henry Pierrepont. In 1729 John Clayton bequeathed £10 for 6d (2.5p) loaves to be given to the poor in Gamston and Bassingfield annually on 24th June.
Despite its ancient origins, Gamston remained a very small village: even the cutting of the Grantham canal in the 1790's had little effect on this agricultural community. But Nottinghamshire County Council purchased much of the land in Gamston for the settlement of soldiers returning from the First World War.
These men and their families worked smallholdings and farms until the 1980's, when two significant developments took place: the Lings Bar Road cut through the land and 200 acres of land was sold by the County Council for £19million for the housing development which is now known as Gamston. Families, which had been tenants of the County Council for two or three generations, had to be rehoused.
NUTS IN NOTTS COMPETITION WINNER - BAIRA
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