Teigh

Human settlement in England

Rutland

Rutland

Rutland

Region

East Midlands

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Rutland and Melton

List of places: UK; England; Rutland

52°44′13″N 0°39′47″W / 52.737°N 0.663°W / 52.737; -0.663

Teigh is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the village was 48 in the 2001 census. At the 2011 census the population remained less than 100 and was included with the civil parish of Market Overton. It is notable for its Holy Trinity Church, almost unaltered since a 1782 rebuild by Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough, that features pews that face one another rather than the altar. Both the parish church^[3] and the Old Rectory of 1740^[4] are Grade II* listed buildings. The Old Rectory was used for the filming of the 1995 BBC series of Pride and Prejudice; it served as Hunsford parsonage, Mr Collins's modest home.

The village's name origin is unsure, the name probably means 'a small enclosure' or 'a meeting place'.^[5]

The writer Arthur Mee proposed Teigh as one of the few Thankful Villages which lost no men in the First World War.

Notable residents

Richard Folville, a member of the Folville gang of robbers led by his older brother Eustace, was rector here from 1321. In 1340–1 he was besieged in the church and then summarily beheaded in his churchyard.

Anthony Jenkinson, main trader of the Muscovy Company was buried here in 1611. He had travelled as far as Bukhara when trying to reach Cathay overland from Moscow, and established overland trade routes through Russia to Persia.

In 1940, the vicar of Teigh, Henry Stanley Tibbs, was interned under Defence Regulation 18B for his pro-Nazi sympathies, but soon released after it was determined he was harmless.^[6]^[7]

References

^ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
^ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
^ Historic England (1 September 2020). "Church of Holy Trinity, Teigh (Grade II*) (1361821)". National Heritage List for England.
^ Historic England (1 September 2020). "Old Rectory, Teigh (Grade II*) (1073204)". National Heritage List for England.
^ "Key to English Place-names".
^ Tibbetts, Graham (4 May 2008). "'Fascist' vicar detained without trial". Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Media Ltd. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
^ Pavia, Will (5 May 2008). "Internet search for lost grandfather revealed he was a shunned vicar who sided with Hitler". TimesOnline. Times Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 21 March 2009.