Manningtree
Manningtree is a town and civil parish in the Tendring area of Essex, England, which pushes the River Stour. It adjoins built-up areas of Lawford to the west and also Mistley to the east as well as the three parishes together are often described as "Manningtree". Manningtree is a complaintant for the title of tiniest community in England. Manningtree has actually commonly asserted to be the smallest town in England, as well as in 2007 mayor Lee Lay-Flurrie said that this had been validated to her by the Census Customer Services, with 700 individuals in 20 hectares (making use of the high tide mark). Nonetheless both this figure and the 2011 census population for the civil parish of 900 is much greater than the 351 population of Fordwich in Kent. In April 2009 it was recommended that Manningtree ought to combine with Mistley as well as Lawford to develop a single parish, losing its separate identity as a community. As of 2018 such a merging has not occurred as well as the community council currently declares to be the smallest by area. Manningtree becomes part of the electoral ward called Manningtree, Mistley, Litte Bentley and Tendring. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 4,603.