Frampton, Lincolnshire

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Frampton is a village in Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated just to the south of the now spreading town of Boston and to the east, the seaward side of the A16 road. Which runs along the townlands (See The Fens, Formation.) The village lies on the edge of one of the great marine creek levees formed during the Bronze Age but three of four kilometres from the modern saltmarsh.

Frampton's main claim to fame is that there is an active campanology (bell ringing) group based in the old church of St Mary's, holding some minor records in this field.

The village is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganization of April 1, 1974, which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972. This parish forms an electoral ward in itself.

Hitherto, the parish had formed part of Boston Rural District, in the Parts of Holland. Holland was one of the three divisions (formally known as parts) of the traditional county of Lincolnshire. Since the Local Government Act of 1888, Holland had been in most respects, a county in itself.