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3 unusual facts about Edenham


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The Australian poet and novelist Frederic Manning stayed at the vicarage after he arrived in the country in 1903.

The parish was the site of the Cistercian abbey of Vaudey, founded in 1147 by William, Earl of Albemarle.

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.


Edenham and Little Bytham Railway

The Edenham & Little Bytham Railway was a railway company formed by Lord Willoughby de Eresby to build a line from the Great Northern Railway at Little Bytham to Edenham, serving the villages of Edenham and Grimsthorpe and also Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire, England.


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