Tetney
village in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Tetney is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, just west of the Prime Meridian. It includes the hamlet of Tetney Lock located to the east of the village on the Louth Navigation canal.
History
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 10 ft 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 be displayed at Lincoln Museum.
The parish church 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.
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-round access to soft fenland fields.
“Tetney” enters the record as village in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tetney, village and East can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Tetney” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tetney, village and East provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q653313. Authority coordinates are 53.489, -0.019. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018, 1363 and 1280.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tetney” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.