Manningtree
Manningtree is a town as well as civil church in the Tendring district of Essex, England, which pushes the River Stour. It joins built-up areas of Lawford to the west and Mistley to the east and also the 3 parishes with each other are sometimes described as "Manningtree". Manningtree is a claimant for the title of tiniest town in England. Manningtree has typically claimed to be the smallest community in England, and also in 2007 mayor Lee Lay-Flurrie stated that this had been validated to her by the Census Customer Services, with 700 people in 20 hectares (making use of the high tide mark). However 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 proposed that Manningtree should merge with Mistley as well as Lawford to develop a solitary parish, losing its different identification as a community. Since 2018 such a merging has not happened and the town council currently asserts to be the tiniest by location. Manningtree belongs to the selecting ward called Manningtree, Mistley, Litte Bentley and Tendring. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 4,603.