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. The lands were inclosed in 1792, when the moor allotments contained 990 acres, and the wold, and old inclosures, 1956; the soil on the moors is light and sandy, and in other places, a rich sandy loam and stiff clay; the surface abounds in rocky eminences of sandstone, and there are numerous quarries of grey stone and chalk. Here, also, is situated the noble mansion, just completed, of the Rt. Hon. C. Tennyson D’Eyncourt, M.P., who is lord of the manor. The river Rase, which rises in the hills, runs through the village. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 16. 8.; net income, £120; patron, Mr. D’Eyncourt: the tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1792 ; the glebe consists of about 12 acres. The church contains portions of the early and decorated English styles, but the latter marks the general character of the structure. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
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.
