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Tealby Lincolnshire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

TEALBY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Caistor, S. division of the wapentake of Walshcroft, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 4 miles (E.N.E.) from Market-Rasen; containing 996 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from Market-Rasen to Binbrook, and comprises 2946 acres, of which about half are arable, and the remainder nearly equally divided between pasture and wood; the scenery is singularly beautiful, and the surface furnishes a striking contrast, both in appearance and in its geological character, to other parts of the county.

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Tathwell Lincolnshire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

TATHWELL (St. Vedast), a parish, in the union of Louth, Wold division of the hundred of Louth-Eske, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 ¼ miles (S. by W.) from Louth ; containing 365 inhabitants, and comprising about 4350 acres. Tathwell Hall, erected by the Hanby family, from whom the estate passed, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, to the Chaplins, was rebuilt in 1841, by Charles Chaplin, Esq., the present lord of the manor and impropriator.

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Temple Brewer Lincolnshire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

TEMPLE-BREWER, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 6 ¾ miles (N. W. by N.) from Sleaford ; containing 94 inhabitants. A preceptory of the Knights Templars was founded here before 1185, and afterwards belonged to the Hospitallers, and had possessions, at the Dissolution, valued at £184. 6. 8. per annum.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

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Tetford Lincolnshire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

TETFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, hundred of Hill, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 6 ½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Horncastle ; containing 778 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 1750 acres: there are limestone quarries, the material of which is used for burning into lime, and for repairing the roads. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £5. 0. 10., and in the patronage of Miss Harrison:

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Tallington Lincolnshire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

TALLINGTON (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Stamford, wapentake of Ness, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Market-Deeping; containing 246 inhabitants. A canal from Stamford to Boston, and the river Welland, run through the southern portion of the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £8. 9. 8.; net income, £200; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Lindsey. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1801; the glebe contains about 120 acres. On the outside of the church, above the chancel, is a rood bell, formerly rung at the elevation of the host. Edward Heron, in 1582, bequeathed some tenements and land, now producing, with an augmentation, £45 per annum, which sum is applied to the payment of a schoolmistress, to the repairs of the church and bridges, and to the relief of the poor.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.