Teigh
TEIGH is a small parish and village, 2 miles northeast from Ashwell station on the Leicester and Peterborough and Nottingham and Kettering branches of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 5 north from Oakham and 8 1/2 south-east from Melton Mowbray, in Alstoe hundred, Oakham union and county court district, rural deanery of Rutland (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The village stands on a height, on the borders of Leicestershire. The church of the Holy Trinity is a plain but ancient building, now consisting only of an embattled nave and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles containing 3 bells: a part of the east end of the nave is railed off so as to form a quasi-chancel and on the rail there is a curious carved wooden font, supported on a brass bracket: the stone font was carved by a former rector: the pulpit of carved oak is, with its canopy, affixed to the west wall of the tower facing eastwards, the western entrance to the church being underneath it, and on either side, at a lower level, are the reading and clerk's desks: the ceiling is panelled and displays the arms of the Harborough family and other coats: the church was partly rebuilt in 1782 and was restored in 1911 at a cost of about £350: the seats, arranged in tiers, facing inwards on either side of the nave, afford 126 sittings. The register dates from the year 1573. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £380, with residence, and including 62 acres of glebe, in the gift of Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. John Gretton C.B.E., V.D., M.P., J.P. and held since 1925 by the Rev. Henry Stanley Tibbs M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, hon. C.F. Cecil Gee esq. is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is red loam; subsoil, same. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, roots and hay. The area is 1,289 acres; the population in 1921 was 86.
Parish Clerk, John Tidd.
Post Office. Letters through Oakham. Ashwell is the nearest M.O. & T. office
Tibbs Rev. Henry Stanley M.A. [rector], Rectory
COMMERCIAL.
Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over.
Gillson Thomas Joseph, farmer
°Mead Horace, farmer
Morley Bros. farmers
Morley George W. farmer
Palmer John, grazier
Parker Elsie May (Miss), shopkeeper, & post office
Rewding Wm. smallhldr. Catmose lodge
Taylor Edwd. Brian, farmer