Tetney is a village in the

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district of

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, England, and just west of the

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History

On the edge of the village is the site of a Marconi Beam Station from where

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s were sent in 1927 to Australia and India as part of the

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. When built it was state of the art and is important in the history of telecommunications because it established the first radio link between the United Kingdom and Australia. Only the bases for the masts remain; the original administration buildings are now a small industrial complex. Ordnance survey maps from the 1920s show an agricultural tramway running from the Humberstone Road (B1198) through Bishopthorpe to Low Farm. Such tramways often used WW1 narrow gauge trench railway equipment to allow year around access to soft fenland fields. The area is now a wind farm. Tetney Lock used to be the location of a heliport run by

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which delivered personnel to North Sea oil and gas rigs, but this is now defunct, having operated from 1965 until the early 1970s. The hangars were converted into a turkey farm. A 4,000-year-old Bronze Age wooden coffin was discovered at the Tetney Golf Club in July 2018 during work on a pond. The 10ft long coffin, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, held the remains of a high status man cushioned by plants and holding an axe, covered by a gravel mound. After conservation, the coffin will go on display at The Collection Museum in Lincoln.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward includes North Coates and had a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 2,449.

Geography and amenities

The village is on the A1031

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coastal road, south of Humberston, and east from Holton-le-Clay. The village also includes the

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of Tetney Lock located to the east of the village on the Louth Navigation canal. The village facilities include the primary school, the Plough Inn

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, on the Market Place, a

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shop, a village shop, a golf club, a garden centre, a

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, a

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and a

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. The

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is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. An inscription on the second pillar from the west on the north arcade states: "This work was completed A.D. 1363 Robert Day the vicar". Some parts of the building are from an earlier church which stood on the same spot, including a doorway dating from about 1280. The village hall is situated at the playing fields, on Humberston Road. The playing fields include a cricket pitch and football pitch – previously there existed a grass tennis court. Tetney United Football Club were based at the village hall and playing fields, and played in the East Lincs Combination Football League. To the east of the village on the road to Tetney Lock is an oil terminal which stores oil for the

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. Oil has been delivered via the Tetney Monobuoy, since January 1971.

Nature

To the east of the village are the Tetney Marshes, which cover over 1,500 hectares of coastal mudflats, salt marsh, dunes and saline lagoons on the north Lincolnshire coast, the reserve forms an important part of the

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Site of Special Scientific Interest and

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, administered by the

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as the Tetney Marshes nature reserve, which functions as a grazing marsh and home of lagoon sand shrimps and

little tern The little tern (''Sternula albifrons'') is a seabird of the family Laridae. It was formerly placed into the genus ''Sterna'', which now is restricted to the large white terns. The genus name is a diminutive of '' Sterna'', "tern". The specific ...

s which live near saline lagoons. To the south of the village are the Tetney Blow Wells, a

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nature reserve and SSSI. The Blow Wells are

artesian springs An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure. An artesian aquifer has trapped water, surrounded by layers of impermeable rock or clay, which apply positive pressure to the water contained within th ...

flowing from the underlying chalk aquifer through the

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to form a series of pools, which were used to supply a water cress farm from 1948 to 1961. The nature reserve is also a habitat for the cardinal beetle, and the

Daubenton's bat Daubenton's bat or Daubenton's myotis (''Myotis daubentonii'') is a Eurasian bat with rather short ears. It ranges from Ireland to Japan (Hokkaido is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and n ...

or water bat.

Notable people

Ella Henderson Gabriella Michelle Henderson (born 12 January 1996), known as Ella Henderson, is an English singer. She competed in the ninth series of '' The X Factor UK'' in 2012, finishing in sixth place despite being a strong favourite to win. She signed ...

, singer *

Keeley Donovan Keeley Emma Donovan (born 14 May 1983) is an English journalist and broadcaster, working for the BBC as a weather presenter for television and radio stations in the North of England. Early life Donovan was born in Grimsby and grew up in nearb ...

, television and radio broadcaster (born in Grimsby and grew up in this village)

References

External links

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Tetney Blow Wells Nature Reserve

Tetney Marshes Nature Reserve

Tetney Beam Station

Tetney School(A History)

Photos of Tetney and surrounding area on geograph
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District