TENDRING, (Essex) S. W. of Harwich, in the middle of the H. to which it gives name, bel. anciently to the Suttons, who held it about 100 years, and then to the Dorewards, who gave it to their hos. at Bocking; but after the Diss. it was given to John de Vere Earl of Oxford, whose posterity having alienated, it has since bel. to Arblaster, Drury, Bowes, and Curtis.