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Edith Weston

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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.

Entrance tae RAF North Luffenham

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

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  1. "Rutland Sailing Club Website". Rutland Sailing Club. Archived frae the original on 24 October 2011. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2009.
  2. Kings Own Royal Border Regiment

Coordinates: 52°38′N 0°38′W / 52.64°N 0.63°W / 52.64; -0.63