Essendine

ESSENDINE (or Essenden) is a parish and village on the borders of Lincolnshire, with a station at the junction of the Stamford and Essendine and the Essendine and Bourne branches of the London, and North-Eastern railway, 4 miles north-east from Stamford and 11½ east from Oakham, in the hundred of East, union of Stamford, rural deanery of Rutland (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. By Local Government Board Order a detached part of Essendine was in 1887 transferred to Carlby, in Bourne union. The church of St. Mary is a small building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and a western turret containing 2 bells: the south doorway and chancel arch are presumed to be Saxon work: the church was repaired in 1835, in 1845 and in 1888, and was restored by the Rev. George Steer, a former vicar, at a cost of £236, when the west wall of Norman date was taken down and rebuilt, all the interior fittings renewed and an organ added: a lectern and a marble tablet were added in 1920, in memory of the men connected with this parish, who fell in the Great War, 1914-18 : there are 100 sittings : the churchyard was added in 1835. The register dates from the year 1600 The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Ryhall, joint net yearly value £320, including 271 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Marquess of Exeter C.M.G. and held since 1917 by the Rev. Julius Brockman White A.K.C.L. who resides at Ryhall. In 1016 a battle was fought near here between the Saxons and the Danes, in which the former were defeated. Essendine had formerly a castle to the north of the church, but nothing now remains except its moated site, which comprises rather more than an acre, and is planted with trees. Frederick Thomas Walker esq. is lordof the manor, and principal landowner. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, roots and pasture land. The area is 1,427 acres of land and 5 of water; the population in 1921 was 222.

Parish Clerk, Richard Fenn.
Post Office. Letters arrive through Stanford. The nearest M.O. office is at Ryhall & T. office at the railway station for delivery (on week days only). Stamford is the nearest T. office
Railway station, L. & N. E

COMMERCIAL.
Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over.
Bettinson J. V. farmer, Manor ho
Dawson Henry (Mrs.), shopkeeper
°Finch F. & Son, farmers, Broadholme
Neale J. blacksmith
Pick Thomas, farmer, Chapel farm
°Smith & Finch, farmers
Smith W. H. & Son, news agents
Railway station
°Smith Wm. Thos. farmer
Wood Richard, Railway hotel