Casterton Magna, or Great, or Bridge Casterton, a parish in Rutland, on Ermine Street and the river Gwash, 2 miles W from Ryhall station on the G.N.R., and 2 1/2 NW from Stamford. It has a post office, of the name of Great Casterton, under Stamford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2303; population of the civil parish, 277; of the ecclesiastical, 448. The manor belonged formerly to the Husseys, the Scroops, the Delawarrs, the Wodeheads, and others, and belongs now to the Marquess of Exeter. A Roman station, burnt by the Picts, is known to have been here. The entire present graveyard, given from the rectory garden in 1892, was found in 1893 to be honeycombed with foundations, hypocausts, &c., and coins of Allectus (A.D. 301) 4 feet from the surface. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Pickworth, in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £350 with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Exeter. The church was Later English, but has been rebuilt. There is a handsome and perfect Saxon font.
