Edith Weston

{{Short description|Village in Rutland, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox UK place

|official_name=Edith Weston

|country=England

|region=East Midlands

|static_image_name=View towards St. Mary's Church in Edith Weston - geograph.org.uk - 1001092.jpg

|static_image_caption=View towards the Church of St Mary the Virgin across Rutland Water from the Hambleton Peninsula

|area_footnotes={{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_AREA_A&u_id=10085366&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=A vision of Britain through time |accessdate=7 February 2009 |publisher=University of Portsmouth}}

|area_total_sq_mi =2.89

| population = 1,042

| population_ref = 2001 Census{{cite web |url=http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF |title=Rutland Civil Parish Populations |accessdate=8 February 2009 |publisher=Rutland County Council |year=2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012204902/http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF |archive-date=12 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}

|population_density={{convert|361|/sqmi|/km2|abbr=on}}

|os_grid_reference=SK927053

|coordinates = {{coord|52.64|-0.63|display=inline,title}}

|post_town=OAKHAM

|postcode_area=LE

|postcode_district=LE15

|dial_code=01780

|constituency_westminster=Rutland and Melton

|london_distance={{convert|82|mi}} SSE

|unitary_england=Rutland

|lieutenancy_england=Rutland

|shire_county=Rutland

|website=

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Edith Weston is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 1,042 at the 2001 census, including Normanton and increasing to 1,359 at the 2011 census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123100&c=Edith+Weston&d=16&e=62&g=6384759&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1466774709109&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=24 June 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}} It is on the south-eastern shore of Rutland Water and is home of the main sailing club and a fishing lodge.{{cite web|url=http://rutlandsc.co.uk/cms/index.php|title=Rutland Sailing Club Website|publisher=Rutland Sailing Club|accessdate=21 March 2009}} The village is named after Edith of Wessex (1029–1075), the queen of Edward the Confessor and sister of Harold Godwinson.

The Grade I listed church{{NHLE|num=1073962|desc=|accessdate=28 September 2015}} is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and includes stained glass by Paul Woodroffe and Hugh Arnold; the organ is by Samuel Green of London and dated 1787.

The village pub is the Wheatsheaf on King Edward's Way.

St George's Barracks is located to the south and east of the village; this was previously RAF North Luffenham. In August 2007 16th Regiment Royal Artillery, equipped with the Rapier FSC, moved here from Woolwich.

File:Well Cross, Edith Weston - geograph.org.uk - 946414.jpg

Edith Weston features in the Alan Sillitoe novel Down From the Hill, with the main character stopping off in the Wheatsheaf for a shandy.