Description
Fineshade, a small parish in Northamptonshire, near the river Welland and the boundary with Eutland, 1 1/2 mile E from Wakerley and Barrowden station on the L. & N.W.R., and 10 NNW of Onndle. Post town, Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Duddington. Acreage, 802; population, 88. An Augustinian priory was built here in the time of King John, by Richard Engayne, on the site of an ancient fortress called Castle Hymel, and was given at the dissolution to the Eussels. Fineshade Abbey now occupies the priory's site, and is the seat of Edward Philip Monckton, Esq. The living is a donative in the diocese of Peterborough, but no clergyman is ever appointed.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
