Wood Enderby

• The parish was in the Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 650
1861	R.G. 9 / 2371
1871	R.G. 10 / 3383

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Benedict.
   
• The church was built of green sandstone.
   
• Portions of the church were rebuilt with warm-tinted sandstone in 1860.
   
• The church was restored in 1892.
   
• The church seats 130.
   
• The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in July, 1976. About two years later it began life as a store. It currently stands un-used.
   
• There is a recent photograph of the church at Geograph.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Benedict's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Benedict's Church taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• Here are two other photos of St. Benedict's Church, taken by Patricia McCRORY (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1561.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Lincolnshire Archives hold opies of the parish register for baptisms 1561-1974; marriages 1563-1965; burials 1561-1979; and Bishop's transcripts for 1561-1855.
   
• The parish had a Wesleyan Methodists chapel built in 1876 (it replaced an older building). For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
   

• The parish was in the Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
   

Wood Enderby is both a village and a parish in the Wold hills, about 4 miles south of Horncastle. Scrivelsby parish lies to the north and Haltham parish to the west.

Wood Enderby village is a smallish place, with a small rivulet running past the north end of the village. If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Wood Enderby to another place.

• Patricia McCRORY (who retains the copyright) offers these pictures of what we believe is the Manor House in Wood Enderby:

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF274640 (Lat/Lon: 53.158146, -0.095701), Wood Enderby which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is one known casualty from World War II. See the information on hims at The War Graves Project.

• The name appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Endrebi.
  A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Horncastle Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• The parish was also in the Horncastle Soke.
   
• The fen allotment for this parish was transferred to Wildmore parish when that parish was formed.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire reports, perhaps erroneously, that the parish was in the South Lindsey division of the county.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Horncastle petty session hearings held every Saturday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	153
1811	183
1821	183
1831	210
1841	161
1851	205
1871	276
1881	168
1891	147
1911	106

• The children of this parish attended school in Moorby parish.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.