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The following are extracts from the History, Gazetteer,
and Directory of the County of Essex by William White
published in 1848.
TENDRING HUNDREDIs a peninsular district, bounded on the north by the estuary of the river Stour, which seperates it from Suffolk; on the east by the German Ocean; on the south by the latter, and the estuary of the river Colne; and on the west by the Colne, Lexden Hundred, and the borough of Colchester. The Borough of Harwich occupies the point of land which juts into the sea at the mouth of the Stour; and about 5 miles to the south is the termination of that long promontory, on which stands the elegant bathing-place of Walton-on-the-Naze. Within this promontory, the sea forms a bay of winding creeks, encompassing Horsea and several smaller islands. The port of Manningtree is on the Stour, at the north-west angle of the Hundred; and that of Brightlingsea is on the Colne, at the mouth of which is St. Osyth Point in the large parish of St. Osyth, which is celebrated for the magnificent remains of its priory. This Hundred is of an irregular figure, averaging about 13 miles in length and breadth, and giving rise to many rivulets flowing to the sea, the Colne, and the Stour. Little more than a century ago, a large portion of it was covered with brushwood, and full of swampy ground, but is now well drained and highly cultivated. It has generally a fertile loamy soil, resting on gravel; and although much of the land lies low, the surface is in many places gently undulated and well wooded. The Bailiwick of the Tendring Hundred has belonged to the successive owners of Colchester Castle since the Norman Conquest, and they appoint a steward and bailiff, and formerly held a court baron at Manningtree every three weeks, for the recovery of debts &c., but the Hundred is now in the district of the County Court held at Colchester. It is in Colchester and Thorpe Polling Districts in the Northern Division of Essex; and in the Diocese of Rochester, Archdeaconry of Colchester, and Deanery of Tendring . The latter is divided into the Rural Deaneries of Ardleigh, Harwich, and St. Osyth of which the Rev. H. Bishop, J.H. Marsden, and P. Duffield are the deans. It forms a Police Division for which Petty Sessions are held every Saturday fortnight alternately at Manningtree and Thorpe-le-Soken. Mr Wm. Angell is clerk to the magistrates. The Eastern Union Railway traverses the western side of the Hundred, from Colchester to Manningtree; and a branch line is projected to Harwich. | |
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