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Edenham is a village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west from Bourne, and on the A151 road. The village is part of the civil parish of Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthorpe & Scottlethorpe.〔 ==History== The Edenham name derives from the Anglo Saxon 'ham' - meaning "homestead". The rest of the name probably derives from 'dene', a "vale in woodland" and 'ea' - "river", though Eada's homestead and Eada's hemmed-in-land have also been suggested.〔 (WebCite )〕 The river East Glen which flows through it is sometimes called the "Eden" by a process of back-formation from the name of the village. Edenham appears in the ''Domesday Book'' as having 32 villagers, 4 smallholders, 24 freemen, 5 lord's plough teams, and 9 men's plough teams, with of woodland and 29 acres of meadow.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Modern map-based Domesday extracts )〕 The parish was the site of the Cistercian abbey of Vaudey, founded in 1147 by William, Earl of Albemarle. It was dissolved during the 1536 Suppression.〔Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 120; Methuen & Co. Ltd〕 Documents of 1307 mention the existence in Edenham of "a hospital". Since 1516 parish land and villages have been owned by the de Eresby family of Grimsthorpe Castle. This major ancestral seat to the north-west of the village influenced Edenham's estate village character. The de Eresby baronetcy has continued in an unbroken line since 1313, and heads of the family have been Earls and Dukes of Ancaster and the Earl of Lindsey. The 19th-century Baron Willoughby de Eresby built the Edenham and Little Bytham Railway which connected the village to the East Coast Main Line at Little Bytham.〔Pearson, R.E & Ruddock, J.G. ''Lord Willoughby's Railway the Edenham Branch'' (1986) ISBN 0-9511656-0-7 〕 Apart from crossing a road in near Little Bytham station, it ran exclusively on his estate. The Australian poet and novelist Frederic Manning stayed at the vicarage after he arrived in the country in 1903. He returned there after the First World War and began writing ''The Middle Parts of Fortune'' (republished in an expurgated version under the title ''Her Privates We''), a novel which he completed in the neighbouring parish, Bourne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edenham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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