Manningtree is a town and also civil church in the Tendring district of Essex, England, which lies on the River Stour. It joins built-up areas of Lawford to the west as well as Mistley to the eastern as well as the 3 parishes together are occasionally referred to as "Manningtree". Manningtree is a complaintant for the title of smallest community in England. Manningtree has generally asserted to be the smallest community in England, and in 2007 mayor Lee Lay-Flurrie said that this had actually 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 proposed that Manningtree needs to combine with Mistley as well as Lawford to develop a solitary parish, losing its different identity as a town. As of 2018 such a merging has actually not occurred as well as the community council currently declares to be the tiniest by location. Manningtree becomes part of the electoral ward called Manningtree, Mistley, Litte Bentley and also Tendring. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 4,603.