Mavis Enderby
Mavis Enderby, the unusual name for a tiny hamlet nestling in the rolling hills of the
Lincolnshire Wolds, east of
Horncastle, is a corruption of
Malbis Enderby, probably taken from the name of 14th century French landholders. Around the time of
Domesday Book, it was called
Endrebi.Standing just northeast of
Old Bolingbroke, it was the family seat of
John of Gaunt, whose son became Henry IV, or
Henry Bolingbroke. Four miles to the south the
Battle of Winceby occurred in
1643.
The modern village has a population of less than 100.
Mavis Enderby features the beautiful old church of St Michael. Set in the floor near the nave is a very large slab of Italian black marble dedicated to Thomas Skepper, laid in the 18th Century.
Mavis Enderby has also had a peal of bells named after it, called "
The Brides of Enderby".
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