Tumby is a village and

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in the

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, England. It is situated approximately north from

Coningsby Coningsby is a town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Lindsey Non-metropolitan district, district in Lincolnshire, England, it is situated on the A153 road, adjoining Tattershall on its western side, north west of Bost ...

and south from

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. In 2011 the parish had a population of 203.

Tumby Woodside

Tumby Woodside is a hamlet about south-east of the village of Tumby. The woods are of oak and larch. In the 15th century it belonged to Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and was also known as Tumby Chase. Tumby Woodside railway station opened here in 1913 serving the Great Northern Railway, and closed in 1970. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was founded in Tumby Woodside in 1818 and was rebuilt in 1897. It closed in 2004. There was formerly an

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church dedicated to St Lawrence, in the neighbouring hamlet of Moorhouses, built by James Fowler in 1875. This is also closed. The Tumby estate was owned by the Hawley baronets. The murderer

Ethel Major Ethel Lillie Major (189219 December 1934) was a British murderer. She was the only woman to be hanged at Hull Prison. She was known as the Corned Beef Killer. Life Ethel Lillie Brown was the daughter of a Lincolnshire gamekeeper on the estate of ...

was daughter of the estate gamekeeper and was born and raised in a lodge on the estate.

Tumby Moorside

Tumby Moorside is a hamlet about south of Tumby, and west of Tumby Woodside. In the 15th century it belonged to

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, who died leaving his estate to his wife, Maud, who then married Sir Thomas Neville, and later Sir Gervaise Clifton. In 1466 Gervaise and Maud Clifton granted Sir Anthony Wydville (or Wydevile), Lord Scales, the manor of Tumby, with the exception of Tumby Woodside which belonged to Ralph, Lord Cromwell. High House Museum is at Tumby Moorside, and is a Grade II

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dating from the 18th century. A 17th-century

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located at the farmhouse is also Grade II listed.

Fulsby

Fulsby is a hamlet located on the

River Bain The River Bain is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Witham. The Bain rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds at Ludford, Lincolnshire, Ludford,J. N. Clarke, (1990), ''The Horncastle and Tattershall Canal'', Oakwood Press, ...

north of Tumby. It was listed in ''

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'' of 1086 as having 4 households, of meadow and of woodland. Most of Fulsby Wood is classified as semi-natural woodland, with the rest as plantation. In the seventeenth century Fulsby was the home of the Cressey family. Tumby Wood is a nature reserve and

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. The rents on a small farm at Fulsby were used by the trustees of the will of Sir John Nelthorpe to maintain Brigg Grammar School, and two poor boys from Legsby or Fulsby were educated, clothed, and looked-after by the school.

Gallery

File:Tumby Gates - geograph.org.uk - 424637.jpg, Fulsby Wood File:Tumby Woodside Wesleyan Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 363734.jpg, Disused Wesleyan Chapel File:St.Lawrence's Church, Moorhouses - geograph.org.uk - 363696.jpg, Disused St Lawrence's Church

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District Local museums in Lincolnshire Coningsby