Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EDENHAM

EDENHAM, a parish in Bourn district, Lincoln; on the river Glen, at the terminus of a branch railway from the Great Northern, 2½ miles NW of Bourn. It includes the hamlets of Grimsthorpe, Ellsthorpe, and Scottlethorpe; and has a post office under Bourn, and a railway station; the branch railway from it going south-westward into junction with the Great Northern at Little Bytham. Acres, 6, 844. Real property, £10, 398. Pop., 644. Houses, 128. The property is all in one estate. Grimsthorpe Castle is the seat of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, and is a very handsome edifice, in a park of about 6 miles in circuit. A Cistertian abbey formerly stood in the park, about a mile from the mansion; was founded, about the year 1451, by William, Earl of Albemarle; bore the name of Vallis Dei, vulgarly corrupted into Vaudey; and is now represented by only three or four large sculptured stones. A mineral well in the parish was, at one time, much frequented by invalids, but went into disrepute. The living is a donative in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £100. Patron, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby. The church is early and later English. There are a public school, a library and reading room , and charities £17.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Edenham AP/CP       Bourne RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Edenham

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