Bassenthwaite

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Bassenthwaite is a village and civil parish in the Allerdale district of Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 412. The village is about nine miles east from Cockermouth, and is approximately one mile from Bassenthwaite Lake Containing just a single pub and no shop, it is largely an agricultural community, with two farms within the village itself, with a number of holiday homes. Boasting a Church of England Church on its outskirts, together with a tiny methodist chapel, it contains many elements of the archetypal English village including a green, primary school and a stream running through it.

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