On the edge of the village is the site of a Marconi Beam Station from where telegrams were sent to Australia and India as part of the Imperial Wireless Chain in 1927.

[2][3][4] When built it was state of the art and is important in the history of telecommunications because it established the first radio link between the United Kingdom and Australia.

Tetney Lock was the location of a heliport run by Bristow Helicopters which transported personnel to North Sea oil and gas rigs, but is now defunct,[5] having operated from 1965 until the early 1970s.

[citation needed] A 4,000-year-old Bronze Age wooden coffin was discovered at the Tetney Golf Club in July 2018 during work on a pond.

The 10 ft long coffin, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, held the remains of a high status man cushioned by plants and holding an axe, covered by a gravel mound.

[12] The Blow Wells are artesian springs flowing from the underlying chalk aquifer through the boulder clay to form a series of pools, which were used to supply a water cress farm from 1948 to 1961.