tetney

Tetney is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and just west of the Prime Meridian. 

History

On the edge of the village is the site of a Marconi Beam Station from where telegrams were sent in 1927 to Australia and India as part of the Imperial Wireless Chain. When built it was state of the art and is important in the history of telecommunications because it established the first radio link between the United Kingdom and Australia. Only the bases for the masts remain; the original administration buildings are now a small industrial complex.

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 around access to soft fenland fields. The area is now a wind farm.

Tetney Lock used to be the location of a heliport run by Bristow Helicopters which delivered personnel to North Sea oil and gas rigs, but this is now defunct, having operated from 1965 until the early 1970s. The hangars were converted into a turkey farm.[citation needed]

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 10ft 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 go on display at The Collection Museum in Lincoln.