Edith Weston
Edith Weston is a veelage an ceevil parish in the coonty o Rutland in the East Midlands o Ingland. It is on the sooth-eastren shore o Rutland Water an is hame o the main sailin club wi a fishin lodge.[1]
The veelage is named efter queen Edith o Wessex (1029–1075), the wife o Edward the Confessor an sister o Harold Godwinson. The kirk is St Mary the Virgin. The veelage pub is the Wheatsheaf on King Edward's Way.
St George's Barracks is locatit tae the sooth an east o the veelage; this wis previously RAF North Luffenham. This haes hoosed the 1st Battalion o the Keengs Awn Ryal Border Regiment[2] but in August 2007 16t Regiment Ryal Artillery, equipped wi the Rapier FSC, muivit here frae Woolwich in sootheast Lunnon.
Freemit airtins
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References
eedit- ↑ "Rutland Sailing Club Website". Rutland Sailing Club. Archived frae the original on 24 October 2011. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2009.
- ↑ Kings Own Royal Border Regiment