| Static Image Name: | Towards Tumby Woodside - geograph.org.uk - 109604.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Towards Tumby Woodside |
| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Tumby |
| Map Alt: | Tumby is a village, about 6.5miles south Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. |
| Coordinates: | 53.1214°N -0.1506°W |
| Population: | 203 |
| Population Ref: | (2011)[1] |
| Civil Parish: | Tumby |
| Shire District: | East Lindsey |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Post Town: | Boston |
| Postcode District: | PE22 |
| Postcode Area: | PE |
| Os Grid Reference: | TF242606 |
| London Distance Mi: | 115 |
| London Direction: | S |
Tumby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2miles north from Coningsby and 6.5miles south from Horncastle. In 2011 the parish had a population of 203.
Tumby Woodside is a hamlet about 3miles south-east of the village of Tumby. The woods are of oak and larch.[2] In the 15th century it belonged to Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and was also known as Tumby Chase.[3]
Tumby Woodside railway station opened here in 1913 serving the Great Northern Railway, and closed in 1970.[4]
A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was founded in Tumby Woodside in 1818 and was rebuilt in 1897. It closed in 2004.[5] There was formerly an Anglican church dedicated to St Lawrence, in the neighbouring hamlet of Moorhouses, built by James Fowler in 1875. This is also closed.[6]
The Tumby estate was owned by the Hawley baronets.
The murderer Ethel Major was daughter of the estate gamekeeper and was born and raised in a lodge on the estate.
Tumby Moorside is a hamlet about 2miles south of Tumby, and 1.5miles west of Tumby Woodside. In the 15th century it belonged to Lord Willoughby, who died leaving his estate to his wife, Maud, who then married Sir Thomas Neville, and later Sir Gervaise Clifton.[3] In 1466 Gervaise and Maud Clifton granted Sir Anthony Wydville (or Wydevile), Lord Scales, the manor of Tumby, with the exception of Tumby Woodside which belonged to Ralph, Lord Cromwell.[3]
High House Museum is at Tumby Moorside, and is a Grade II listed building dating from the 18th century.[7] A 17th-century barn located at the farmhouse is also Grade II listed.[8]
Fulsby is a hamlet located on the River Bain north of Tumby. It was listed in Domesday Book of 1086 as having 4 households, 8acres of meadow and 120acres of woodland.[9] [10] Most of Fulsby Wood is classified as semi-natural woodland, with the rest as plantation.[11]
In the seventeenth century Fulsby was the home of the Cressey family.[12]
Tumby Wood is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest.[13] The rents on a small farm at Fulsby were used by the trustees of the will of Sir John Nelthorpe to maintain Brigg Grammar School, and two poor boys from Legsby or Fulsby were educated, clothed, and looked-after by the school.[14]