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Rh TETTENHALL REGIS. 633 TEWKE8BUEY. Thame, co. Oxford, 4 miles S.W. of Thame, and 12 S.E. of Oxford. The village is situated on the high road from London to Oxford. The living is a vie. in the dioc. of Oxford, yal. 130, in the patron, of trustees. The church, dedicated to St. Giles, is modern. There is a National school for both sexes. The Independents and Wesleyans have chapels. Miss Weston is lady of the manor. TETTENHALL BEGIS WITH TETTENHALL CLERICORTJM, a par. in the N. div. of Seisdon hund., co. Stafford, 2 miles N.W. of Wolverhampton, its post town. It is situated on the Stafford and Birmingham canal, and comprises the hmlts. of Compton, Pirton, Bovenhill, Pendeford, and Wrottesley. The Danes were beaten here in 907 with great slaughter. The Seisdon union poorhouse is situated in this parish, also the Wol- verhampton water-works, which have a tower 180 feet in height. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the hardware manufactures, especially that of locks. The population of the parish in 1861 was 3,716. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Lichfield, val. 196. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a royal free chapel, and was made collegiate before the Conquest, for a dean and four prebendaries. It was repaired and enlarged in 1825, and the tower has recently been restored. It has a painted E. window representing St. Michael and the dragon, and contains monuments to the Wrottesley femily, a carved font of great antiquity, and an ancient oak chest 13J feet in length, hewn out of a solid ^block. The register dates from 1606. The parochial charities produce about 105 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes, also a chapel for Wesleyans at Tettenhall Wood. TETTON, a tnshp. in the par. of Warmingham, hund. of Northwich, co. Chester, 3 miles N.W. of Sandbach. The township is situated on the Trunk canal and the river Wenlock. Here are extensive brick and tile kilns belonging to the Cheshire Landowners' Drainage and Enclosure Company. Lord Crewe is lord of the manor and chief landowner. TETWORTH, a par. in the hund. of Tosoland, co. Huntingdon, 6 miles S.E. of Neot's, and 3 N.W. of Potton. It is joined with Everton, in Biggleswado hun- dred. [See EVERTON.] TEVERSALL, a par. in the N. div. of BroxtQW wap., co. Nottingham, 4 miles W. of Mansfield, its post town, and 4 N.W. of Sutton railway station. The village is situated on an eminence near the source of the river Medcn. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agri- culture, and a few in stocking weaving. Coal and lime- stone abound, but are not worked. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Lincoln, val. 510. The church, dedicated to St. Catharine, is a Norman structure, with a tower clothed in ivy, and a Saxon doorway marked with symbolical representations. The interior contains tombs of the Molyneux, Greenhaulgh, and Babington families. The parochial charities produce about 7 per annum. The Earl of Carnarvon is lord of the manor and principal landowner. TEVERSHAM, a par. in the hund. of Fiendish, co. Cambridge, 3J miles E. of Cambridge, its post town. The village is situated on the Cambridge and Newmarket road, and is wholly agricultural. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Ely, val. 352, in the patron, of the bishop. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, or to All Saints, is an ancient edifice with a tower and bell. The register dates from 1593. The charities consist of the rent of lands bequeathed by Lady Joan Jenny, which IKAV produce about 35 per annum. TKVIOT, a river of co. Roxburgh, Scotland, rises under Pikelaw, and flowing through TeviottUile, receives the tributary waters of Slitrig, Rule, Ale, Jed, and Kail, and joins the Tweed at Kelso. TKVIOTHEAD, a par. in the district of Hawick, co. irgh, Scotland. It was created into a separate pari.ih out of the parishes of llawirk :iml Cuvers in 1850. bounded l>y Duniiiii biro, and by the parishes of Boberton, liawick, Carers, and Otutleton. Tlio KHI is upland, and ia drained l>y tin; principal slieanu of the Teviot. This par. is in the presb. of Jedburgh and synod of Merse and Teviotdale. The old chapel of Caerlanrig was the original parish church ; but a now church was erected at the expense of the late Duke of Buecleuch in 1856. TEW, GREAT, a par. in the hund. of Wootton, co, Oxford, 3J miles N.E. of Neat-Enstone, its post town, and 16 N.W. of Oxford. The Heythrop hounds meet in this parish. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Oxford, val. 134. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, has been enlarged. The interior contains some ancient brasses and sculptured effigies, and the tomb of Lord Falkland. The parochial charities produce about 36 per annum. There is a National school. Near this place several Roman antiquities have been discovered. M. P. W. Boulton, Esq., is lord of the manor. TEWIN, a par. in the hund. and co. of Hereford, 4J miles W. of Hertford, its post town, and 2j S.E. of the Wclwyn station on the Great Northern railway. The village is situated on the river Maran. The manor was formerly held by St. Alban's Abbey, the Tywinges, St. Bartholomew's Priory, Cooks of Broxbourno, the Cecils, and Lord May. The land is partly in common. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Rochester, val. 438, in the patron, of Jesus College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a tower containing a clock and five bells. In the churchyard is the tomb of Lady Ann Grimstone, which in the course of a century has been gradually displaced by seven ash trees and sycamores. There are also monuments to Lady Cathcart and her second husband, General Sabine, who rebuilt Tewin House. The register dates from 1559. The parochial charities produce about 38 per annum, of which 13 go to a school. There is a National school for both sexes. Marden is the principal residence. TEWKESBURY, a par., market, and sessions town, municipal and parliamentary borough, locally in the above hund., co. Gloucester, 10 miles N.E. of Gloucester, and 108 from London. It is a station on the Midland railway. The town, which is of great antiquity, is situated at the conflueivce of the rivers Avon and Severn, in the Vale of Evesham. It is the Tcodechesberie of Domesday Survey, and has the remains of a mitred Benedictine Abbey, founded in 715 as a cell to Cran- borne. In 1471 Edward IV. defeated the Lancastrians at Bloody Meadow, where Queen Margaret was taken prisoner, and her son slain. In the civil war of Charles I. it was garrisoned by the royalists, but was surprised by Massie in 1644. The town consists of three principal streets, with several smaller streets running offin different directions, but all paved and lighted with gas. The houses are chiefly built of brick. The public edifices comprise the townhall, built in 1786 by Sir W. Codrington, whose portrait it contains ; a new gaol, and house of correction ; a market-house, on the site of the Tolsey ; a mechanics' institute, library, and reading-rooms, a savings-bank, union poorhouse, house of industry at Holma Hill, a dispensary, three commercial branch banks, a small theatre, recently converted into a silk mill, and two iron bridges, the one over the Severn, of one arch, 179 feet span, and the other over the Avon. There are manu- factories of stockings, lace, and nails, also a tannery, corn mills, and malting establishments. It is a borough by prescription, and was incorporated by Elizabeth. Under the Municipal Act it is governed by a mayor, who is also returning officer, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors, with the style of " bailiffs, burgesses, and commonalty." The borough has returned two members to par- liament since 1609, and wnn extended by the Reform Act so as to include the whole of tho parish. The area of the borough is I,b90 acres, and the municipal revenue about 900. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Gloucester and Bristol, ral. 313, in the patron, of the lord chancellor. The Abbey church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally in the. Anglo-Norman stylo of architecture, with a lower rising from, the centre 300 feet high. It was partly restored in 1796. Tho ceiling is of stone, groined ami panelled, and the walls an; decorated with a al series of j orlruita of tho