Tewin, Hertfordshire

Description
Tewin, a parish, with a village, in Hertfordshire, 1 1/2 mile SE of Welwyn station on the G.N.R., and 4 1/2 miles WNW of Hertford. It has a post office under Welwyn; money order and telegraph office, Welwyn. Acreage, 2694; population, 550. The manor with most of the land belongs to Earl Cowper. Tewin Water and Marden Hill are chief residences. Queen Hoo Hall, once a hunting lodge of Queen Elizabeth, is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £300. Patron, Jesns College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of brick, flint, and rubble, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It contains a large marble monument to General Joseph Sabine, governor of Gibraltar, and several other ancient tombs and memorials. In the churchyard there is a plain altar tomb to Lady Ann Grimston, who died in 1710; and from beneath the tomb seven ash trees grow from a single root, and also three sycamores similarly connected. A curious legend is connected with the growth of these trees, and the tomb attracts thousands of visitors every year. There are several valuable charities. Archers Green, Lower Green, Poplar Green, and Upper Green are adjacent hamlets.