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A vision of Britain through time
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TETNEY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Louth district, Lincoln. The village stands 2¼ miles NE of North Thoresby r. station, and 6½ SSE of Great Grimsby; and has a post-office under Grimsby, a temperance hall, a reading room, an agricultural society, and a fair on the Monday after 12 July.—The parish includes Tetney-Haven, at the outfall of the Louth navigation; has there an inn, coal wharves, and a coastguard station: and comprises 5,030 acres of land, and 3,295 of foreshore. Real property, £9,410. Pop., 917. Houses, 197. The property is much subdivided. Much of the land is fertile marsh. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of L. The church was restored in 1862. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.—The sub-district contains 13 parishes. Acres, 36,074. Pop., 5,655. Houses, 1,232.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Tetney CP/AP Tetney SubD Louth RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Tetney |
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