Edith-Weston or Edweston, a parish in Rutland, on the river Gwash, 1 3/4 mile NNW from Luffenham station on the M.R., and 5 1/2 SE by E from Oakham. It has a post office under Stamford; money order and telegraph office, North Luffenham. Acreage, 1852; population, 281. An alien Benedictine priory, a cell to St. George's, Banquerville, stood here, was given to the Charterhouse, Coventry, and passed to William Lord Par of Kendal, and then to the Halfords, through whom it has descended to the present owner. Edith-Weston Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £200 with residence. The church has a light Gothic spire, and is ancient, but very good.
