South Luffenham
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South Luffenham is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.
It once had a railway station which was located to the north of the village and also served the neighbouring village of North Luffenham. It was opened in 1848 and closed in 1966. In fact there were two railway stations in the parish as the station at Morcott lay just within the parish boundary of South Luffenham.
The village has two pubs, the Boot & Shoe and the Coachhouse (previously the Halfway House), a church and village hall. The Post Office finally closed in 2006. There are several farms and through the centre of the village runs a small stream, the River Chater. There is a ruined windmill near the outskirts of the village.
The Rev. John Francis Richards was vicar from 1908 to ?. Being a Greek scholar, pupils came from abroad to be taught at the Rectory. Among these was the son of the German Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Herman Goering, whose name was reputed to be scratched with a pin on one of the Rectory windowsills; this was in the period prior to the 1914 War.
Robert Scott (1811 – 1887) the co-editor with Henry George Liddell of A Greek-English Lexicon, the standard dictionary of classical Greek, was also Rector here for four years before he was elected Master of Balliol in 1854.
"Hodson of Hodson's Horse" (William Stephen Raikes Hodson) (1821 - 1858), a soldier prominent in the Indian Mutiny is commemorated here along with his father Rev. George Hodson, who was Rector.
Agnes Maude Royden (1876 - 1956) preacher and suffragette came to the village In 1902 to undertake parish work for the Reverend William Hudson Shaw (1883 - 1944). They finally married in 1944.
