Tealby (All Saints)

TEALBY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Caistor, S. division of the wapentake of Walshcroft, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Market-Rasen; containing 996 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from Market-Rasen to Binbrook, and comprises 2946 acres, of which about half are arable, and the remainder nearly equally divided between pasture and wood. The scenery is singularly beautiful, and the surface furnishes a striking contrast, both in appearance and in its geological contents, to other parts of the county. On the inclosure of the lands in 1792, the moor allotments contained 990 acres, and the wold, and old inclosures, 1956. The soil on the moors is light and sandy, in other places a rich sandy loam and a stiff clay; the surface abounds in rocky eminences of sandstone, and there are numerous quarries of grey stone and chalk. At Tealby is situated the noble mansion, just completed, of the Rt. Hon. C. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, M.P., who is lord of the manor. The river Rase, which rises in the adjacent hills, runs through the village. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 16. 8.; net income, £120; patron, Mr. D'Eyncourt: the tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1792; the glebe consists of about 12 acres. The church contains portions in the early and decorated English styles. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.