. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. land. TENDRING (St. Edmund), a parish, and the headof a union, in the hundred of Tendring, N. division ofEssex, 10 miles (E. by S.) from Colchester; containing925 inhabitants. The parish is in th
. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. land. TENDRING (St. Edmund), a parish, and the headof a union, in the hundred of Tendring, N. division ofEssex, 10 miles (E. by S.) from Colchester; containing925 inhabitants. The parish is in the centre of the hun-dred, and comprises 2767a. 2r. 33p., of which about 2619acres are arable, 50 pasture, 78 in woods and groves, and20 waste. The surface is elevated, and the soil generallya rich loam resting upon gravel. A fair is held on the14th of September. The living is a rectory, valued inthe kings books at £16, and in the gift of Balliol Col-lege, Oxford : the tithes have been commuted for £840,and the glebe contains 108 acres. The church is anancient edifice, with a belfry-turret of wood, and hassome interesting monuments. The union of Tendringcomprises 32 parishes or places, containing a populationof 26,251 : the work-house, situated on the heath in theparish, was erected in 183S, at an expense of £6500,including the purchase of the site. TENT TERR Corporation Seal of Tenter Obverse. Reverse. TENTERDEN (St. Mildred), a market-town andparish, within the cinque-port liberties, having separatejurisdiction, and forming the head of a union, locally inthe hundred of Tenterden, Lower division of the latheof Scray, W. division of Kent, 18 miles (S. E. by S.)from Maidstone, and 53 (S. E. by E.) from London ; con-taining 3620 inhabitants. This town, the name of whichappears to be a corruption of Theinwarden, or the wardof Thanes, that is, the guard in the valley, was one ofthe places where the woollen manufacture was establishedin the reign of Edward III. It became a s
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