Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TEWIN

TEWIN, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Hertford; 1¾ mile SE of Welwyn r. station, and 4½ WNW of Hertford. It has a post-office under Hertford. Acres, 2,615. Real property, £3,639. Pop., 547. Houses, 100. Tewin Water mansion and domain belong to Earl Cowper; and Marden Hill belongs to G. Thornton, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £438.* Patron, Jesus College, Cambridge. The church is good. There are a national school, and charities £38.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tewin AP/CP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Tewin

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