Mavis Enderby
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 Church of St Michael, Mavis Enderby |
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  Mavis Enderby |
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| OS grid reference | TF361663 |
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| – London | 115 mi (185 km) S |
| District | East Lindsey |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | PE23 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Louth and Horncastle |
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Coordinates: 53°10′37″N 0°02′08″E / 53.177043°N 0.035595°E
Mavis Enderby is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds, 4.5 miles (7 km) east from Horncastle.
History
Mavis Enderby church is dedicated to St Michael.[1]
An alternative spelling may be "Malvyssh Enderby", as seen in a legal record in 1430, where the plaintiffs are the executors of a man whose surname is Enderby, and the defendant lives in Malvyssh Enderby.[2]
Literary references
Mavis Enderby had a peal of bells named after it, called The Brides of Enderby,[3] which is mentioned in Jean Ingelow's poem "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire 1571": in the poem the ringing of the bells is the generally recognised signal of approaching danger.
An extract from the poem is at the head of Rudyard Kipling's short story, At the Pit's Mouth.
Douglas Adams used the name "Mavis Enderby" in his spoof The Meaning of Liff dictionary "of things that there aren't any words for yet". Adams assigned meanings to placenames based on what he imagined them to mean, Mavis Enderby becoming "The almost-completely-forgotten girlfriend from your distant past for whom your wife has a completely irrational jealousy and hatred".
See also
References
- ↑ "National monument record for the church".
- ↑ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 677; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no677/bCP40no677dorses/IMG_1275.htm; 4th entry
- ↑ "The Brides of Enderby"; Enderbymuseum.ca. Retrieved 30 April 2012
External links
Media related to Mavis Enderby at Wikimedia Commons
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