Wood Enderby
- The parish was in the Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 650 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2371 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3383 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2599 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Szint Benedict.
- The church was built of green sandstone.
- Portions of the church were rebuilt with warm-tinted sandstone in 1860.
- The church was restored in 1892.
- The church seats 130.
- The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in July, 1976. About two years later it began life as a store. It currently (2011) stands un-used.
- There is a recent photograph of the church at Geograph.
- There is a photograph of St. Benedict's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
- Here is a photo of St. Benedict's Church taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- Here are two other photos of St. Benedict's Church, taken by Patricia McCRORY (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1561.
- The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Lincolnshire Archives hold opies of the parish register for baptisms 1561-1974; marriages 1563-1965; burials 1561-1979; and Bishop's transcripts for 1561-1855.
- The parish had a Wesleyan Methodists chapel built in 1876 (it replaced an older building). For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
Wood Enderby is both a village and a parish in the Wold hills, about 4 miles south of Horncastle. Scrivelsby parish lies to the north and Haltham parish to the west. The parish covers about 815 acres.
Wood Enderby village is a smallish place, with a small rivulet running past the north end of the village. There is a small barrow just south of the village. If you are planning a visit:
- Patricia McCRORY (who retains the copyright) offers these pictures of what we believe is the Manor House in Wood Enderby:
- The national grid reference is TF 2763.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #273 map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
There is one known casualty from World War II. See the information on hims at The War Graves Project.
- The name appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Endrebi.
A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Horncastle Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- The parish was also in the Horncastle Soke.
- The fen allotment for this parish was transferred to Wildmore parish when that parish was formed.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire reports, perhaps erroneously, that the parish was in the South Lindsey division of the county.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
153 |
| 1811 |
183 |
| 1821 |
183 |
| 1831 |
210 |
| 1841 |
161 |
| 1851 |
205 |
| 1871 |
276 |
| 1881 |
168 |
| 1891 |
147 |
| 1911 |
106 |
Last updated on 17-March-2015
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