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Tendring District
Tendring ''Shown within Essex''
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Essex
Area: - Total	Ranked 145th 337.58 km²
Admin. HQ:	Clacton-on-Sea
ONS code:	22UN
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	98.7% White
Politics
Tendring District Council http://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	Douglas Carswell, Bernard Jenkin

'Tendring' is a local government district in North East Essex, England. It extends from the River Stour in the north, to the coast and the River Colne in the south, with the coast to the East and the town of Colchester to the west. Its council is based in Clacton-on-Sea. Places in the district include Frinton-on-Sea, Walton-on-the-Naze, Brightlingsea and Harwich.
Sometimes referred to as the "Tendring Peninsula", the district was formed on April 1, 1974 as a merger of the borough of Harwich, with Brightlingsea, Clacton and Frinton and Walton urban districts, and Tendring Rural District. The name Tendring comes from the ancient Tendring Hundred which is named after the small Tendring village at the centre of the area. The Tendring Poor Law Union covered the same area as the present district.
During the English civil war, the witch-finder general, Matthew Hopkins carried out many trials throughout this and the surrounding area especially in the towns of Manningtree and Mistley on the River Stour.

Contents

Etymology

Topology

Parishes

Soken

External links

Etymology

There are these theories about the origin of its name:-

★ From Anglo-Saxon ''tynder'' = "tinder": "place where tinder or fuel is gathered."

★ From the German placename Tündern in Lower Saxony (old spelling ''Tundiriun'') plus Anglo-Saxon ''-ing'' or ''-ingas'': "people who came across the sea from Tündern".

Topology

The highest part of the district is a low (35 metres) ridge running west to east only 3 km south of the River Stour. The greater part of the district is undulating land sloping very gently to the south which is traversed by a number of streams.

Parishes

The district is divided into the following parishes. "From" indicates older parishes which have now been merged.

★ Alresford, Ardleigh

★ Beaumont-cum-Moze, Great Bentley, Little Bentley, Bradfield, Brightlingsea, Great Bromley, Little Bromley

★ Clacton-on-Sea (town council from Great Clacton and Little Holland), Little Clacton

★ Elmstead

★ Frating, Frinton and Walton (from Frinton, Great Holland, Kirby-le-Soken and Walton-on-the-Naze)

★ Harwich (from Dovercourt and St Nicholas)

★ Lawford

★ Manningtree, Mistley

★ Great Oakley, Little Oakley

★ Ramsey and Parkeston

★ St Osyth

★ Tendring, Thorpe-le-Soken, Thorrington

★ Weeley, Wix, Wrabness

Soken

In the extreme east of the district is an area formerly known as the 'Soken' which was granted special privileges in Saxon times. It is remembered in the place names Kirby-le-Soken, Thorpe-le-Soken and Walton-le-Soken (an older name for Walton-on-the-Naze).

External links

★ Entry in Kelly's Directory of Essex, 1894

★ The local water supply company preserves the old name: Tendring Hundred Water Services Ltd

★ Review of ward boundaries by the Boundary Committee with maps

★ History notes on the Sokens

★ Unofficial Frinton website