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Bascote

hamlet in Warwickshire, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ4866343 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bascote is a hamlet in rural Warwickshire, England, within the civil parish of Long Itchington. The nearest town is Southam, 1.5 miles away. Bascote consists of a small number of large houses, a post box and a telephone box. Nearby is Bascote Heath home to a few country mansions, facility, several country cottages, farms, a war memorial, and the Fox and Hen public house.

Environmental issues

The planned HS2 rail line will be under the Bascote Woods. There is also a planned solar farm.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bascote” as hamlet in Warwickshire, England, UK. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 84-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bascote, hamlet and Warwickshire can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as hamlet in Warwickshire, England, UK. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4866343. Authority coordinates are 52.260, -1.410. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bascote” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.