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Edith Weston is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 1,042 at the 2001 census, including Normanton and increasing to 1,359 at the 2011 census.[3] It is on the south-eastern shore of Rutland Water and is home of the main sailing club and a fishing lodge.[4] The village is named after Edith of Wessex (1029–1075), the queen of Edward the Confessor and sister of Harold Godwinson.
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The village pub is the Wheatsheaf on King Edward's Way.
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Edith Weston features in the Alan Sillitoe novel Down From the Hill, with the main character stopping off in the Wheatsheaf for a shandy.
Edith Weston Hall
Edith Weston Hall was a former country house built in an Elizabethan style by the architect
See also
References
- ^ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "Rutland Sailing Club Website". Rutland Sailing Club. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1073962)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ^ "Victoria County History, Rutland / A History of the County of Rutland". British History Online. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
External links
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