Wood Enderby

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Wood Enderby
Lincolnshire
St.Benedict's church, Wood Enderby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 85755.jpg
St Benedict's Church, Wood Enderby
Location
Grid reference: TF274638
Location: 53°9’24"N, 0°5’43"W
Data
Population: 186  (2011 with Moorby.)
Post town: Boston
Postcode: PE22
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Louth and Horncastle

Wood Enderby is a little village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, about four miles south of Horncastle. The wider civil parish includes the hamlets of Cluxby Puckacre and Wilksby.[1]

The village has no amenities, such as a local shop or any retail outlet. There are approximately 50 households in the village.

The name 'Enderby' is believed to derive from an Old Norse personal name 'Eindriði', with the suffix 'by', meaning a farmstead, village or settlement.[2]

Wood Enderby is listed as "Endrebi" in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time the lord of the manor was the King.[3] In 1198 and 1328 it was referred to as Woodenderby.

Churches

All Saints, Wilksby

The former parish church, St Benedict, was almost entirely rebuilt in 1860 using limestone and greenstone.[4][5] It was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in 1976,[6] but remains a grade II listed building.

Between Wood Enderby and its nearby hamlet of the parish, Wilksby, at a junction of lanes in open countryside, stands a small, extant church, All Saints. It is built of greenstone and red brick, and is a Grade II listed building.[7] It was renovated in 1895.[8]

About the village

Rose Cottage, in Wood Enderby, is a Grade II listed 17th-century white-washed mud and stud cottage, with 19th- to 20th-century alterations.[9]

Wilksby

Wilksby appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as "Wilchesbi", with the Lord of the Manor being The King.[10]

See also

Outside links

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References

  1. Information on Wood Enderby  from GENUKI
  2. Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
  3. Enderby Wood Enderby in the Domesday Book
  4. National Heritage List 1215328: Churh of St Benedict, Wood Enderby
  5. National Monuments Record: No. 352823 – St Benedicts, Wood Enderby
  6. Information on Wood Enderby  from GENUKI
  7. National Heritage List 1287679: All Saints, Wilksby (Grade II listing)
  8. Information on Wood Enderby  from GENUKI
  9. National Heritage List 1288165: Rose Cottage, Wood Enderby (Grade II listing)
  10. Wood Enderby in the Domesday Book