LYNDON, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; on the river Chater, 1¾ mile E of Manton r. station, and 4½ NE of Uppingham. Post town, Uppingham. Acres, 902. Real property, £1,527. Pop., 126. Houses, 27. The manor, with Lyndon Hall, belongs to E. N. Conant, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £190. * Patron, E. N. Conant, Esq. The church is old; has a tower; and was restored and enlarged in 1866, at a cost of about £1,500. The churchyard contains a monumental tablet to Whiston the translator of Josephus. Charities, £8.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))