Tealby is a village and

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in the

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district of

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, England, situated on the edge of the

Lincolnshire Wolds The Lincolnshire Wolds which also includes the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which runs roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary just west of the t ...

and north-east of

Market Rasen Market Rasen ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately north-east from Lincoln, England, Lincoln, eas ...

. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 593.

Community

Tealby is noted for the Tennyson-d'Eyncourt family, which provided the village hall and school. In the 1980s the school was used for filming the programme ''

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''. In the early 2000s the village was granted permission for a shop to be built, now run by volunteers. The village post office was threatened with closure but it is open at certain times of the week. Tealby church, built using local orange-iron stone, is dedicated to All Saints and dates back to the 12th century; it holds memorials to the Tennyson-d'Eyncourt family. Tealby residents included

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, who lived on Beck Hill (

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recorded a song about "Tealby Abbey" on Regimental Sgt Zippo). The King's Head, one of two

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s in the village, is one of the oldest in the country and retains a thatched roof. Tealby has a Bowls Club and a Lawn Tennis Club, the courts of which are a facility for the wider district, the club promoting a Young Leaders Tennis Course and competitions. The village hall, run by a committee, is used for parties, social events, playgroups, school events and meetings.

Bayons Manor

Tealby's Bayons Manor was once owned by Charles Tennyson, later Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, the uncle of

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. The estate was purchased in 1944 by a local farmer, primarily for the farmland since the house was already derelict and becoming dangerous. Because of its dangerous condition a subsequent owner had it demolished in 1964. Bayons Manor was a rare example of a

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Tealby Thorpe

This hamlet is a short distance south-west of Tealby village. It has a watermill on the

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, and also boasts a couple of fords.

Tealby Hoard

In 1807 a ploughman working for George Tennyson uncovered an earthenware pot containing a hoard of some 6000 silver coins. These were examined by Sir

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, 604 retained for collectors and reference and 5127 melted down at the Tower Mint. The

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have been historically important in numismatics, showing development of Medieval coinage in England.

Etymology

For a long time the placename Tealby has been attributed to Anglo-Saxon ''tæfl''/''tefl'' "gaming-board", here for a square piece of land, plus

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''-bȳ'' "dwelling". But there are old spellings ''Tavelesbi'', ''Tauelesbi'' and ''Teflesbi'', and the Anglo-Saxon word ''tæfl'' is feminine and so its genitive would be ''tæfle'', and therefore Caitlin Green suggests that the name refers to some

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(a horse-riding Germanic or

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people) who invaded

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or were brought into Gaul by Romans as mercenaries and later crossed to Britain with the Anglo-Saxons.http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/papers/TealbyGreenProof.pdf Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Vol. 46, 2011.

References

External links

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Tealby Watermillwww.thisistealby.com
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