Description
Whissendine, a village and a large parish in Rutland. The village stands near the borders of Leicestershire, 1 1/2 mile SSW of a station of its own name on the Syston and Peterborough and Nottingham and Fettering branches of the M.R., and 4 1/2 miles NNW of Oakham. It was known in the Norman times as Wichingedine, is a scattered place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oakham. The parish comprises 4043 acres; population, 723. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belonged to Waltheof, the nephew of William the Conqueror, passed to the Wakes, the Hollands, the Greys, and others, and belongs now to the Kennedy family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £160. The church is a very fine building of stone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, S porch, and a western pinnacled tower. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Whissendine which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
