Tetney, Lincolnshire

Description
Tetney, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 1 1/4 mile from Holton-le-Clay station on the G.N.R., and 6 1/2 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.