Essendine, a village and a parish in Rutland, contiguous to Lincoln, and on the G.N.R., 4 1/4 miles NNE from Stamford, with a station on the railway, and two branch lines strike off hence to respectively Stamford and Bourn. There is a post office under Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Stamford. Acreage, 1477; population, 177. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to the bishops of Lincoln, and had a castle. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Ryhall, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net yearly value, £60 with residence, in the gift of the Marquis of Exeter. The church is Norman, and has an elaborately sculptured Norman tympanum over south door, representing the Salvator Mundi in glory. One of the titles of the Marquis of Salisbury is Baron Essendine of Rutland, whose ancestors owned the property up to 1812, it having formerly belonged to Queen Elizabeth's great lord treasurer, Burghley.
