| Buslingthorpe | |
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 St Michael's Church in Buslingthorpe | |
  Buslingthorpe Location withinLincolnshire | |
| OS grid reference | TF0885 |
| • London | 130 mi (210 km) S |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Lincoln |
| Postcode district | LN3 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Buslingthorpe is a hamlet andcivil parish in theWest Lindseydistrict ofLincolnshire, England. It is half a mile east of theA46 atFaldingworth and 3 miles (5 km) south-west fromMarket Rasen.
The hamlet is approximately 3 square miles (7.8 km2) in area and comprises a moat, one farm,St Michael's Church (now disused but open to the public) and approximately 20 houses. A large manor house was constructed in approximately 2010 on the land of two demolished houses.[citation needed]
A writer inNotes and Queries in 1932 noted that the Buslingthorpe (shared withBuslingthorpe,Leeds andBuckfastleigh,Devon) contains 13 different letters, exactly half the alphabet, with none repeated and no hyphenation: aheterogram, and wondered whether that was unique.[1] In 2007David Crystal noted thatBricklehampton inWorcestershire surpasses this with 14 unique letters.[2]
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