List of hundreds of England and Wales

Hundreds of Bedfordshire in 1832

• Barford
• Biggleswade
• Clifton
• Flitt
• Manshead
• Redbornestoke
• Stodden
• Willey
• Wixamtree

Hundreds of Berkshire in 1832

The County of Berkshire comprised 20 Hundreds and 193 parishes and parts of four others.[2] From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868), Victoria County History Berkshire Vol 3 (1923)[3] & Vol 4 (1924)[4]

Buckinghamshire Hundreds in 1832

Until at least the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire.[7] It has been suggested however that neighbouring hundreds had already become more closely associated in the 11th century so that by the end of the 14th century the original or ancient hundreds had been consolidated into 8 larger hundreds.[8]

• Ashendon Hundred
• Aylesbury Hundred – consolidated from the eleventh century Aylesbury, Risborough and Stone hundreds
• Buckingham Hundred
• Cottesloe Hundred
• Newport Hundred

Hundreds of Cambridgeshire in 1832

Cambridgeshire was divided into 17 hundreds, plus the borough of Cambridge. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters. In 1929 the hundreds contained the following parishes.[9][10]

Hundreds of Cheshire in 1832

From Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T. (1987). The Victoria History of the County of Chester. (Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-722761-9.

• Broxton
• Bucklow
• Eddisbury
• Macclesfield
• Nantwich
• Northwich
• Wirral

In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrev

Hundreds of Cornwall in 1832

From GENUKI

• Penwith (Penwyth)
• Kerrier (Keryer)
• Pydar (Pedera)
• Powder (Pow Ereder)
• Trigg (Trigor)
• Lesnewth (Lysnowyth)
• Stratton (Stradneth)
• West (Fawy)
• East (Ryslegh)

For some purposes, the Isles of Scilly were counted as a tenth hundred.

Map of Cumberland showing wards, 1824

Cumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland

• Allerdale-above-Derwent
• Allerdale-below-Derwent
• Cumberland
• Eskdale
• Leath

The civil divisions of Derbyshire were anciently called wapentakes. In the Domesday Survey of 1086 are mentioned the wapentakes of Scarvedale, Hamestan, Morlestan, Walecross, and Apultre, and a district called Peche-fers.[12] Divided into hundreds by 1273. From GENUKI (based on the 1868 Gazette):

• High Peak—Hamestan wapentake and perhaps Peche-fers district in 1086; Peck wapentake by 1273.
• Wirksworth—Called a wapentake as late as 1817.
• Scarsdale
• Morleston and Litchurch—Called in the Domesday Survey of 1086, Morlestan or Morleystone wapentake and Littlechurch wapentake,[13] and in the Hundred-Roll of 1273, Littlechirch; by 1300 combined as the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch.[14]
• Appletree
• Repton and Gresley—In 1274 formed the separate wapentakes of Repindon and Greselegh (owned by the King and the heirs of the Earl of Chester respectively); in 1086 the large Walecross wapentake.

Devon Hundreds in 1832

In 1850 there were thirty-two hundreds in Devon according to White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire[15]

County Durham was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From an 1840 map of County Durham .

• Chester-le-Street
• Sadberge
• Easington
• Stockton

Essex Hundreds in 1832

• Barstable (sometimes spelled Barnstable)
• Becontree
• Chafford
• Chelmsford
• Clavering
• Dengie, known at the time of Domesday as Witbrictesherna (Wibrihtesherne) Hundred
• Dunmow
• Freshwell
• Harlow
• Liberty of Havering, also sometimes known as Romford Hundred
• Hinckford
• Lexden
• Ongar
• Rochford
• Tendring
• Thurstable
• Uttlesford
• Waltham
• Winstree
• Witham

According to essex1841.com the 1841 census also recorded Harwich hundred, which the Victoria County History places within Tendring.

Gloucestershire Hundreds in 1832

The thirty-nine hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the thirty-one hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the twenty-eight hundreds of the present day. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland

• Barton Regis
• Berkeley
• Bishop's Cleeve
• Bisley
• Bledisloe
• Botloe
• Bradley
• Brightwell's Barrow
• Cheltenham
• Cleeve
• Crowthorne-with-Minety
• Deerhurst
• Dudstone (upper, middle and lower divisions)
• Grumbalds Ash
• Henbury
• Kiftsgate (upper and lower divisions)
• Langley and Swinehead
• Longtree
• Lower Slaughter
• Lower Tewkesbury
• Lower Thornbury
• Pucklechurch
• Rapsgate
• St Briavels
• Tibaldstone
• Upper Slaughter
• Upper Tewkesbury[17]
• Upper Thornbury[18]
• Westbury
• Westminster
• Whitstone (upper and lower divisions) – absorbed the Blacklow hundred by 1220.

The Duchy of Lancaster (Gloucestershire) liberty was sometimes counted as a hundred.

The hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the ten hundreds of the present day. Not included in the hundreds of Herefordshire at the time of Domesday, the sparsely populated Welch area of Archenfield included Ashe Ingen, Baysham and Kings Caple.[19]

From Domesday (1086):

• Bromsash
• Castlery[20]
• Cutestornes[21]
• Dinedor[22]
• Ewias[23]
• Greitrewes[24]
• Hazeltree – Hezetre[25]
• Plegelgete[26]
• Radlow[27]
• Sellack
• Stradel[28]
• Tornelaus[29]

From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868)

• Broxash
• Ewyas-Lacy
• Greytree
• Grimsworth
• Radlow
• Stretford
• Webtree[30]
• Wigmore
• Wolphy
• Wormelow (upper and lower divisions)

Hertfordshire Hundreds in 1832

(Danais & Tring added as per History of Hertfordshire)[31]

• Braughing
• Broadwater
• Cashio (Previously known as St Albans Hundred)
• Dacorum
• Danais (merged with Tring to form Dacorum)
• Edwintree
• Hertford
• Hitchin
• Odsey
• Tring (merged with Danais to form Dacorum)

• Hurstingstone
• Leightonstone
• Norman Cross
• Toseland

Kent Hundreds in 1832

From Kent Genealogy . Kent was traditionally divided into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds.

Lancashire Hundreds in 1834

• Amounderness
• Blackburn
• Leyland
• Lonsdale
• Salford
• West Derby

Leicestershire was originally divided into four wapentakes, but these were usually later described as hundreds. From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica[32] after 1346 the six hundreds were:

• East Goscote
• Framland
• Gartree
• Guthlaxton
• Sparkenhoe
• West Goscote

In the Domesday Book, West Goscote and East Goscote made up just Goscote and Sparkenhoe did not yet exist. The division which brought East and West Goscote and Sparkenhoe into existence was made in 1346.

Lincolnshire Wapentakes in 1832

Lincolnshire was divided into three Parts, each of which was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds.

From map on Lincolnshire County Council website:[33]

Parts of Holland

• Elloe[34]
• Kirton
• Skirbeck

Parts of Kesteven

• Aswardhurn
• Aveland
• Boothby Graffoe (Higher and Lower divisions)
• Beltisloe
• Flaxwell
• Langoe (First and Second divisions)
• Loveden
• Ness
• Winnibriggs and Threo (wapentake)

Parts of Lindsey

North Riding of Lindsey

• Bradley-Haverstoe
• Ludborough
• Walshcroft (North and South divisions)
• Yarborough

South Riding of Lindsey

• Calceworth (Marsh and Wold divisions)
• Candleshoe (Marsh and Wold divisions)
• Gartree[35] (North and South divisions)
• Hill
• Louth-Eske (Marsh and Wold divisions)
• Wraggoe (East and West divisions)

West Riding of Lindsey

• Aslacoe (East and West divisions)
• Corringham
• Epworth[36] (compare Isle of Axholme)
• Manley (East, North, and West divisions)
• Lawress
• Well

• Edmonton
• Elthorne
• Gore
• Isleworth (recorded in 1086 as Hounslow)[37]
• Ossulstone
• Spelthorne

[38]

In 1086, there were 29 hundreds in the county. By the time of the 'Nomina Villarum' a survey carried out in the first half of the 12th Century, the Stoke Hundred had been absorbed into the Corby Hundred.[39] From the Northamptonshire Family History Society[40] the hundreds in the 1800s are:

The liberty and Soke of Peterborough was sometimes called Nassaburgh hundred.

Following the Harrying of the North and subsequent incursions from Scotland, the high sheriff of Northumberland was granted extraordinary powers. The county was subdivided into baronies, which were arranged in six wards and subdivided into constabularies.[42] The wards were analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868)

• Bamburgh
• Castle[43]
• Coquetdale
• Glendale[44]
• Morpeth
• Tynedale

Nottinghamshire Wapentakes in 1832

Nottinghamshire was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire

• Bassetlaw (North Clay, South Clay and Hatfield divisions)
• Bingham (North and South divisions)
• Broxtowe (North and South divisions)
• Newark (North and South divisions)
• Rushcliffe (North and South divisions)
• Thurgarton (North and South divisions)

From[45]

• Bampton[46][47]
• Banbury
• Binfield[48]
• Bloxham[49]
• Bullingdon
• Chadlington
• Dorchester
• Ewelme (Known as Benson hundred in 1070)[50]
• Kirtlington[51] - A hundred at the time of Domesday, it was combined to form the major portion of Ploughley hundred by 1169.
• Langtree
• Lewknor[52]
• Pyrton - Pirton is a later Latinised spelling.[53]
• Ploughley[54] - Name first mentioned in the form Pokedelawa hundred in the Pipe Roll of 1169.
• Thame
• Wootton - Includes the three hundreds dependent on the royal manor of Wootton in 1086[55] and sometimes called the "three hundreds of Wootton"[56] in the later 12th century: Shipton hundred,[57] (unknown name) hundred and pre-1086 Wootten hundred.[58] The hundred was later divided into two administrative regions:
  • Wootton (Northern part) - 19 parishes including Barford St. Michael, Deddington, Glympton, Heythrop, Rousham, Sandford St. Martin, South Newington, Stonesfield, Tackley, Wootton, the Astons (North Aston and Steeple Aston), the Bartons (Steeple Barton and Westcott Barton), the Wortons (formed in 1932 by combining Nether Worton and Over Worton parishes), and the three Tews (Great Tew, Little Tew and Duns Tew).
  • Wootton (Southern part) - 15 parishes and several extraparochial places[59]
  • Within Woolton hundred yet separately administered were the areas of Oxford City & University,[60] Oxford City and Oxford Liberty.[61]

Map of Rutland; by George Carrington Gray (1824)

• Alstoe
• East
• Martinsley
• Oakham
• Wrandike

Shropshire Hundreds in 1832

From GENUKI[62]

† — including the Shropshire exclave of Halesowen ‡ The liberties of the borough of Shrewsbury and priory/borough of Wenlock were extensive and are usually considered as hundreds (Wenlock was sometimes described as the "franchise of Wenlock").[64]

Hundreds of Somerset in 1832

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland

Hundreds of Staffordshire in 1832

From GENUKI[65]

• East Cuttlestone
• West Cuttlestone
• North Offlow
• Souh Offlow
• North Pirehill
• South Pirehill
• North Seisdon
• South Seisdon
• North Totmonslow
• South Totmonslow

[66]

Map of Surrey; by Wenceslaus Hollar (17th century)

There are thirteen hundreds and one half hundred:

Sussex Hundreds in 1834

Sussex was divided into rapes, and then hundreds.

Warwickshire in 1832

Warwickshire was divided into four hundreds, with each hundred consisting of a number of divisions.

• Barlinchway (also Barlichway)
  • Alcester
  • Henley
  • Snitterfield
  • Stratford
• Hemlingford, formerly named Coleshill
  • Atherstone
  • Birmingham
  • Solihull
  • Tamworth
• Kington (also Kineton)
  • Brailes
  • Burton Dassett
  • Kington
  • Warwick
• Knightlow
  • Kenilworth
  • Kirby
  • Rugby
  • Southam

Westmorland was divided into four wards, analogous to hundreds. Pairs of wards made up the two Baronies. From Magna Britannica et Hibernia (1736)

There were 40 hundreds in Wiltshire at the time of the Domesday Survey. Hundreds in 1835 were:

Worcestershire in 1832

The ancient hundreds in 1086 at the time of the Domesday survey were:[75] Ash, Came, Celfledetorn, Clent, Cresslow, Cutestornes, Doddingtree, Dudstone, Fernecumbe, Fishborough, Greston, Ossulstone, Oswaldslow, Pershore, Plegelgete, Seisdon, Tewkesbury, Tibblestone, Wolfhay. Some of the parishes within these hundreds, such as Feckenham in Ash Hundred, or Gloucester in Dudstone Hundred, may have partially been in other counties or were transferred between counties in the intervening years.

Over the centuries, some of the hundreds were amalgamated and appear in many useful statistical records. The hundreds that continued their courts until disuse include:

• Blackenhurst
• Doddingtree
• Halfshire[76][77] – combined the Domesday hundreds of Clent[78] and Cresslow[79]
• Oswaldslow – combined three ancient hundreds
• Pershore

Yorkshire in 1832

Yorkshire has three Ridings,[80] East, North and West. Each of these was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds.

The Ainsty wapentake, first associated with the West Riding, became associated in the fifteenth century with the City of York, outside the Riding system.

The hundreds of Amounderness and Lonsdale in Lancashire plus part of Westmorland were considered as part of Yorkshire in the Domesday Book.

Hundreds of Tudor Wales

Wales was divided into hundreds following the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. This resulted in the creation of five new counties (Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire) from the Marches of Wales. Combined with the transformation of the Lordships of Pembroke and Glamorgan into new counties, with the existing counties of Cardiganshire, Caernarfonshire and Flintshire (created by the Statute of Rhuddlan) this gave Wales thirteen counties.

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