AT the time of forming the Domesday survey, this place, then called
Tedlintune formed part of the soke of Horncastle; {55} but is now
comprised in the hundred of Gartree. It is very pleasantly situated
about two miles northward of Horncastle, near to the road leading from
that place to Lincoln.
The manorial estates comprising the chief part of the parish, are the
property of Richard Samuel Short, Esquire, a descendant of a female
branch of the family of that name, which he adopted on coming into
possession of the estates. The manor house, the seat of the proprietor,
though not of regular architecture, acquires an agreeable effect from the
grove in which it is situated. From the house the prospect to the
south-west, over the adjacent level country, is both extensive and
pleasing.
[Picture: Edlington Grove, Seat of Richard Samuel Short, Esquire]
The church is a small building possessing no claim to attention. The
vicarage is in the gift of the Duchy of Lancaster. The rectorial tythes
belong to the grammar school at Oakham, in the county of Rutland.
On under-draining a field in this parish, in the latter part of the year
1819, several heaps of ox bones were dug up, and with each heap an urn of
baked clay, apparently of Roman manufacture; but unfortunately none of
the urns were taken up whole. To account for these relics being found
here, it is probable that on this spot a Roman sacrifice had been
celebrated, in honor of some deity, on the occasion of a victory, or in
the exercise of other pagan rites.
Annexed to this parish is the hamlet or manor of Poolham, anciently
called Polum. It formed part of the barony of Gilbert de Gaunt until
about the thirty-fifth year of Edward the first, when Robert de
Barkeworthe died seized of it; {56a} and it appears to have been the
residence of Walterus de Barkeworthe, who died in 1347, and was buried in
the cloister of Lincoln cathedral. Afterwards it was the residence of
the family of Thimbleby, a branch of the Thimblebys of Irnham, {56b} who
probably built the mansion house within the ancient moat, about the time
of Henry the eighth. The Savilles of Howley in the County of York,
enjoyed the estate in the reign of Elizabeth, and in 1600, Sir John
Saville, Knight, sold it to George Bolles, Esquire, citizen of London,
whose descendant Sir John Bolles, Baronet, conveyed the same to Sir
Edmund Turnor, of Stoke Rochford, Knight, and it is now the inheritance
of Edmund Turnor, Esquire. {56c}
Within the moat, beside the mansion house, are the remains of a chapel,
built of stone, a font, and a grave-stone with the date 1527.
In 1821, the parish of Edlington contained 37 houses, and 263
inhabitants.