Population
of more than 1,000 - 7 miles from Grimsby.
The Tetney village church of St Peter and St Paul is over
1,000 years 0ld and received some restoration in 1363. There is evidence of a Saxon church here before the Danes came in 870 and burned it down.
Its
tower, said to be the finest example of a marshland
church tower in the county, was constructed in 1418.
The
Lock has unfortunately been demolished to build a road bridge over the Navigational
Canal Network, also known as the Louth Canal
The Wesleyan Methodists also had a small chapel in Tetney, built in 1877.
The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built in Tetney Lock in 1864, now converted into a private house.
St
Peter and St Paul's
A
footpath off Church Lane in the village provides visitors
with the opportunity to see one of the areas most interesting
natural phenomena. Tetney Blow-wells, owned by the Lincolnshire
Trust for Nature Conservation, is a natural spring which
- although not open to the public - is visible from the
pathway.
