Mavis Enderby

Mavis Enderby
240px Church of St Michael, Mavis Enderby
Mavis Enderby  Mavis Enderby shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	TF361663
– 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
List of places UK England Lincolnshire

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.

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.

Literary references

Mavis Enderby had a peal of bells named after it, called The Brides of Enderby, 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

• Bag Enderby
• Wood Enderby
• Enderby, Leicestershire

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons