Tumby is a village and township belonging to Kirkby on Bain

Kirkby on Bain

Kirkby on Bain is a village and civil parish in the English county of Lincolnshire.-Geography:Kirkby on Bain lies on the River Bain between Horncastle and Coningsby just west of the A153. Administratively it forms part of the district of East Lindsey. Close by to the north is the village of...

 parish, and is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Coningsby

Coningsby

Coningsby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Taking its name from the Old Norse 'konungr' meaning 'King' with an Old Norse suffix 'by' meaning 'the settlement of' which gives Coningsby the meaning 'The Settlement of the King'...

 and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south of Horncastle, in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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Tumby Woodside

Tumby Woodside is a hamlet about 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of the village of Tumby. The woods are of oak and larch. In the 15th century it belonged to Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and was also known as Tumby Chase.

Tumby Woodside railway station

Tumby Woodside railway station

Tumby Woodside railway station was a station on the former Great Northern Railway between Firsby and Lincoln.It served the village of Tumby Woodside in Lincolnshire, England until closure in 1970. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.Former...

 opened here in 1913 serving the Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846. On 1 January 1923 the company lost its identity as a constituent of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway....

, and closed in 1970.

Tumby Moorside

Tumby Moorside is a hamlet about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Tumby, and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) 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. 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.)

Fulsby

Fulsby is a hamlet located on the River Bain

River Bain

The River Bain is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Witham.The Bain rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds at Ludford, a village on The Viking Way long-distance footpath, and flows through or past the villages of Burgh on Bain, Biscathorpe, Donington on Bain, Goulceby with...

 north of Tumby. It was listed in Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 of 1086 as having 4 households, 8 acres of meadow and 120 acres of woodland. Most of Fulsby Wood is classified as semi natural woodland, with the rest classified as plantation. Tumby Wood is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest

Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...

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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

Sir John Nelthorpe School

The Sir John Nelthorpe School is a comprehensive school on Grammar School Road in Brigg, North Lincolnshire.-Admissions:The is for ages from 11 to 18. The is on Wrawby Road.-Grammar school:...

, and two poor boys from Legsby

Legsby

Legsby is a small village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies south of Caistor and south-east from the town of Market Rasen....

 or Fulsby were educated, clothed, and looked after by the school.

High House Museum

High House Museum is at Tumby Moorside, and is a Grade II listed building dating from the 18th century. A 17th century barn

Barn

A barn is an agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace. It may sometimes be used to house livestock or to store farming vehicles and equipment...

located at the farmhouse is also Grade II listed.