Tetney, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Tetney, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 1¼ mile from Holton-le-Clay station on the G.N.R., and 6½ miles SSE of Great Grimsby. It has a post sind money order office under Great Grimsby; telegraph office, Marshchapel. There are a temperance hall, and a fair on the Monday after 12 July. The parish includes Tetney Lock, situated close to Tetney Haven, which is the outfall of the Louth navigation, and has there an inn, coal wharves, and a coastguard station. Acreage, 5441; population, 775. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Much of the land is fertile marsh. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, with some Norman portions, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Tetney St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Poor Law union | Louth | |
Wapentake | Bradley-Haverstoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Tetney:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1730-1849 | 1755-1755 | 1730-1837 | 1730-1812 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tetney from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tetney (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Tetney are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: