Teigh is a village and civil parish in the county of

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in the

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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

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. It is notable for its

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, almost unaltered since a 1782 rebuild by

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, that features pews that face one another rather than the altar. Both the parish church and the Old Rectory of 1740 are Grade II* listed buildings. The Old Rectory was used for the filming of the 1995 BBC series of ''

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''; 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'. 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 Richard Folville (died 1340–1) was a member of the infamous Folville Gang captained by his older brother Eustace. Biography Richard was the fourth of 7 sons born to Sir John Folville (died 1310) of Ashby Folville, Leicestershire. In 1321 he ...

, a member of the

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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

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was buried here in 1611. He had travelled as far as

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when trying to reach

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overland from Moscow, and established overland trade routes through Russia to Persia. In 1940, the vicar of Teigh,

Henry Stanley Tibbs Henry Stanley Tibbs (1877 – 5 February 1943) was an Irish-British Anglican priest briefly interned in the Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B for his alleged pro-Nazi sympathies. Henry Tibbs was the rector of the parish of Teigh, Rut ...

, was interned under Defence Regulation 18B for his pro-Nazi sympathies, but soon released after it was determined he was harmless.

References

External links

Village websiteTeigh Church website
Villages in Rutland Civil parishes in Rutland {{Rutland-geo-stub