TEWIN, a parish in the hundred of HERTFORD, and county of
HERTFORD, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Welwyn, containing
477 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated m
the king's books at £ 14, and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of Jesus' College, Cambridge. The
church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a square embattled
tower, with a low spire. The Rev. Henry Yarborougn,
in 1783, bequeathed the rents and profits of four tenements,
to be applied for teaching ten children, and increasing
the parish clerk's income; and Lady Cathcart,
in the same year, gave an annuity of £ 5 in further support
of the school. There are sundry other bequests
for the relief of the poor, and apprenticing children.