BASTON, a parish in the wapentake of NESS, parts
of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 3 miles (N. N.W.)
from Market-Deeping, containing, with portions of certain
extra-parochial places in the fens, 682 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£6. 1. 3., and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.