Tewin
Adjacent Parishes: Bramfield, Datchworth, Digswell, Hatfield, Hertford St Andrew, Hertingfordbury, Watton-at-Stone, Welwyn
It was in Hertford Hundred and the Hertford Union
Detail from Charles Smith's Map of Hertfordshire, 1808
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St Peter, Tewin (from Hertfordshire Countryside, Summer 1964) |
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Candles provide the only artificial means of lighting at the eleventh-century church of St Peter at Tewin. There is no electric lighting and the organ is worked by hand. The fine proportions of the interior can be seen from this photograph looking down the nave towards the chancel. From an article on the church in the Hertfordshire Countryside for Spring 1948. |
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Tomb in Tewin Churchyard (postcard circa 1910)
TEWIN (about 2 miles S.E. from Welwyn Station, G.N.R.) is most charmingly situated on high ground above the river Maran. The village is divided into the Upper and Lower Green; the church ¼ mile from the latter, stands on a hill that slopes steeply to the river. Note the altar-tomb in churchyard to Lady Anne Grimston (d 1710). The tomb is forced asunder by ash and sycamore trees growing together, a circumstance popularly attributed to the sceptical opinions of Lady Anne, who is said to have denied the doctrine of immortality, and to have expressed the wish that such a phenomenon should happen if the doctrine were indeed true. The church, which looks very old, is of flint, brick and rubble, with a large diamond-faced clock on one side of the tower. ...
.Hertfordshire Little Guide, 1903
Tewin Green - A Hartmann postcard
posted in 1911
Ephemera: Hertfordshire Girl Guides' County Rally 1920
Tewin Water (undated postcards)
Web Site: Tewin Village Web Site
Queen Hoo Hall, Oilette series postcard by Raphael Tuck
& Sons
copies known posted 1905
See
Queen Hoo, The Story of the Manor and the Hall
See also Vital Records
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
Page updated January 2005
