Tenterden, a market-town in Kent, once a Cinque Port; the steeple of the church of which is reported to have been the cause of the Goodwin Sands, the stones intended for the dyke which kept the sea off having been used instead to repair the church.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord * Tenterden, Lord