Whissendine
| Whissendine | |
| Rutland | |
|---|---|
 St Andrew's parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK8314 |
| Location: | 52°43’12"N, 0°46’16"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,189 (2001) |
| Post town: | Oakham |
| Postcode: | LE15 |
| Dialling code: | 01664 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rutland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Rutland and Melton |
| Website: | Welcome to Whissendine |
Whissendine is a village and parish in the very north-west of Rutland, adjacent to the border with Leicestershire. The parish comprehends the most westerly point in the county, although the village itself not as far west as Belton. The village has two pubs (The White Lion and The Three Horseshoes), a church and a former Methodist chapel, and a windmill.
Whissendine Windmill was built in 1809 and returned to milling in September 2006.[1][2][3] The windmill is a Grade II* listed building.[4]
Parish church
The parish church is St Andrew's[5] It was built in the 13th century and has a 14th-century tower.[6] The screen to the Lady Chapel was brought here in the 19th century from the old chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.[6]
St Andrew's is a Grade I listed building.[6]
Associated wit the church is Whissendine Church of England Primary School, standing in the middle of the village.
The village's Methodist chapel closed in 2009.
Big Society
The Village Hall hosts many events throughout the year including antiques fairs and the village pantomime.
Each year in late June, the village hosts a "feast week", an ancient custom from the Middle Ages that has been reintroduced and entails a week of activities for the community. This includes a 6-mile run, an UK Athletics licensed race,[7] the Feast week extravaganza, the knockout and the fete on the green.
The village also has a sports club that has a cricket team, football pitch, tennis club, archery club and a bowling green.
The pasture called The Banks is still let by ancient custom. This involves a candle in which a pin is stuck is lit and the last bidder before the pin falls is entitled to rent The Banks for the ensuing year.
The village had a scout troop up until 2010 and a cub pack until 2012.
The village is on the Rutland Round, the circular walk around the county.
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References
- ↑ "Cotswolds Millwrights Home". Cotswolds Millwrights Co. http://cotswoldmillwrights.com/. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
- ↑ "Nigel brings windmill back to life". Melton Times (Johnston Press). 20 March 2009. http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/Nigel-brings-windmill-back-to.5093641.jp. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
- ↑ "The Working Windmill". BBC News. 8 July 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2009/06/04/whissendine_windmill_feature.shtml.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1073211: The Windmill, Wissendine
- ↑ St Andrew Whissendine
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 National Heritage List 1295308: Church of St Andrew
- ↑ RunBritain website
Books
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). Leicestershire and Rutland. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 333–335.
