Tealby village is thought to date back to somewhere around the 5th Century AD.  The Domesday book of 1085 gives the number of peasants and smallholders as 54, which possibly put the total population of the village at that time at around 200. By the census of 1801 there were 469 people in the village and by 1841 there were 996 residents. The number of people in the village declined thereafter to around 500 at 1900 and has remained close to that since then..

The Church (All Saints) shown below dates from around the 12th Century, although it may have been built over a previous building.

The local school was built in 1856 and is still in use today. For many years farming was the mainstay of the local economy, as it was throughout Lincolnshire, but nowadays most people find employment in the larger towns.

There are two pubs in the village, The Olde Barn and the Kings Head which is thought to date back to 1367.

The village of Tealby is now a modern, thriving community