WHITWELL, (Rutland) to the E. of the Vale of Catmose, bel. anciently to the prior of St. John of Jerusalem; but after the Diss. was granted to the Harringtons; from whom it went by marriage to the ancestor of the present E. of Ganesborough. The Flower's family had a seat here for a long time, and some lands here bel. once to the hos. of Burton-St. Lazarus in Leicestershire.