List of hundreds of England and Wales

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Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds from the late Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century.[1] In Wales there was a system of division by cantref (meaning a hundred farmsteads); in some areas, equivalent districts were known as "wapentakes", "cantrefs" (Welsh: cantrefi) or "wards". Some cantrefs and wapentakes were later referred to as hundreds.

Bedfordshire

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Hundreds of Bedfordshire, 1830

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Main article: Hundreds of Bedfordshire

Berkshire

From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868)

Buckinghamshire

Chiltern Hundreds

Cambridgeshire

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Main article: Hundreds of Cambridgeshire

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.[4][5]

Hundred Area (acres) Parishes
Armingford 29287 Abington Pigotts, Bassingbourn, Croydon, East Hatley, Guilden Morden, Litlington, Melbourn, Meldreth, Royston (part), Shingay, Steeple Morden, Tadlow, Wendy, Whaddon
Chesterton 15847 Chesterton, Childerley, Cottenham, Dry Drayton, Histon
Cheveley 12905 Ashley, Cheveley, Kirtling, Newmarket All Saints, Wood Ditton
Chilford 22364 Babraham, Bartlow, Castle Camps, Great Abington, Hildersham, Horseheath, Linton, Little Abington, Pampisford, Shudy Camps, West Wickham
Ely 42667 Downham, Littleport
Flendish 11906 Cherry Hinton, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, Horningsea, Teversham
Longstow 25500 Bourn, Caldecote, Caxton, Croxton, Eltisley, Gamlingay, Great Eversden, Hardwick, Hatley St. George, Kingston, Little Eversden, Little Gransden, Longstowe, Toft
North Witchford 86275 Chatteris, Doddington, March, Whittlesey
Northstow 19651 Girton, Impington, Landbeach, Lolworth, Longstanton, Madingley, Milton, Oakington, Rampton, Waterbeach
Papworth 26923 Boxworth, Conington, Elsworth, Fen Drayton, Graveley, Knapwell, Over, Papworth St Agnes, Papworth Everard, Swavesey, Willingham
Radfield 23869 Balsham, Brinkley, Burrough Green, Carlton-cum-Willingham, Dullingham, Stetchworth, West Wratting, Westley Waterless, Weston Colville
South Witchford 37462 Coveney, Grunty Fen, Haddenham, Manea, Mepal, Sutton, Stretham and Thetford,[6] Welches Dam, Wentworth, Wilburton, Witcham, Witchford
Staine 18917 Bottisham, Great Wilbraham, Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Stow-cum-Quy
Staploe 40775 Burwell, Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett, Landwade, Snailwell, Soham, Wicken
Thriplow 16160 Fowlmere, Foxton, Great Shelford, Harston, Hauxton, Little Shelford, Newton, Stapleford, Thriplow, Trumpington
Wetherley 16160 Arrington, Barrington, Barton, Comberton, Coton, Grantchester, Harlton, Haslingfield, Orwell, Shepreth, Wimpole
Whittlesford 11078 Duxford, Hinxton, Ickleton, Sawston, Whittlesford
Wisbech 61157 Elm, Leverington, Newton, Outwell, Parson Drove, Thorney, Tydd St. Giles, Upwell, Wisbech, Wisbech St. Mary

Cheshire

Hundreds of Cheshire in Domesday Book
File:Cheshire-Later-Hundreds.svg
The later hundreds of Cheshire

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Main article: Hundreds of Cheshire

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.

Domesday Hundreds

With some variations in the names, the Domesday hundreds were:

Later Hundreds

Atiscross and Exestan were lost to Wales, and a merging and amalgamation of the rest with a renaming led to the following hundreds:

Cornwall

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Main article: Hundreds of Cornwall

In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrev

From GENUKI [1]

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

Cumberland

Cumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [2]

Derbyshire

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.[7] Divided into hundreds by 1273. From GENUKI [3] (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,[8] and in the Hundred-Roll of 1273, Littlechirch; by 1300 combined as the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch.[9]
  • 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

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Map of Devonshire and Exeter; by Benjamin Donn (1765)

In 1850 there were thirty-two hundreds in Devon according to White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire[10]

Dorset

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Dorset Hundreds in 1834

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Main article: List of hundreds in Dorset

County Durham

County Durham was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From an 1840 map of County Durham [4].

Essex

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Main article: Hundreds of Essex

According to essex1841.com [5] the 1841 census also recorded Harwich hundred, which the Victoria County History places within Tendring.

Gloucestershire

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 [6]

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

Hampshire

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Hampshire Hundreds in 1832

Herefordshire

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.

From Domesday:

From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) [7]

Hertfordshire

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Hertfordshire Hundreds in 1832

(Danais & Tring added as per History of Hertfordshire)[13]

Huntingdonshire

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Main article: Hundreds of Huntingdonshire

Kent

Kent Hundreds in 1832

From Kent Genealogy [9]. Kent was traditionally divided into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds.

East Kent

Lathes: St. Augustine, Scraye, Shepway

plus Romney Marsh Liberty

West Kent

Lathe of Sutton at Hone

Lathe of Aylesford

plus the Lowey of Tonbridge

Lathe of Scraye (part)

Lancashire

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Lancashire Hundreds in 1834

Leicestershire

Leicestershire was originally divided into four wapentakes, but these were usually later described as hundreds. From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica[14] after 1346 the six hundreds were:

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

Lincolnshire was divided into three Parts, each of which was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From map on Lincolnshire County Council website [10]

Holland
Kesteven
Lindsey
North Riding of Lindsey
South Riding of Lindsey
West Riding of Lindsey

Middlesex

Norfolk

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Main article: Hundreds of Norfolk

[19]

Northamptonshire

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.[20] From the Northamptonshire Family History Society[21] the hundreds in the 1800s are:

The liberty and Soke of Peterborough (now in Cambridgeshire) was sometimes called Nassaburgh hundred.

Northumberland

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.[23] The wards were analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) [11]

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire Wapentakes in 1832

Nottinghamshire was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire [12]

Oxfordshire

From [26]

Rutland

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Map of Rutland; by George Carrington Gray (1824)

Shropshire

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See also: History of Shropshire § Hundreds
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Map of Shropshire; by Wenceslaus Hollar (17th century). (A more accurate map of the hundreds.)

Domesday Book

From Open Domesday[43]

Post-Domesday

The hundreds of Shropshire were greatly reformed during the 12th century.

From GENUKI[44]

† — 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's sometimes described as the "franchise of Wenlock").[45]

Somerset

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland

Staffordshire

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

From GENUKI[46]

Suffolk

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Main article: Hundreds of Suffolk

[47]

Surrey

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

There are thirteen hundreds and one half hundred:

Sussex

Sussex Hundreds in 1834

Sussex was divided into rapes, and then hundreds.

Arundel Rape

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Main article: Rape of Arundel

The Arundel Rape covered nearly all of what is now West Sussex until about 1250, when it was split into two rapes the Arundel Rape and the Chichester Rape.[48] In 1834 it contained five hundreds sub-divided into fifty six parishes.[49]

Bramber Rape

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Main article: Rape of Bramber

The Bramber Rape lies between the Rape of Arundel in the west and Lewes in the east. In 1834 it contained 40 parishes.[50]

as well as 3 half hundreds

  • East Easwrith
  • Fishersgate
  • Wyndham

Chichester Rape

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Main article: Rape of Chichester

The combined Chichester and Arundel Rape covered nearly all of what is now West Sussex until about 1250, when it was split into two rapes the Arundel Rape and the Chichester Rape.[48] In 1834 it contained seven hundreds and seventy-four parishes.[51]

Hastings Rape

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Main article: Rape of Hastings

The Rape of Hastings was on the easternmost part of Sussex, with the county of Kent to its east and the Rape of Pevensey to its west. In 1833 it had 13 hundreds giving a total of about 154,060 acres.[52]

Lewes Rape

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Main article: Rape of Lewes

The Rape of Lewes is bounded by the Rape of Bramber on its west and the Rape of Pevensey on its east. Although it had the same amount of hundreds in 1833 as in the Domesday survey, there had been some cases of manors and parishes been taken from one and added to another hundred, and in other cases the hundreds had been divided and lost.[53]

Pevensey Rape

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Main article: Rape of Pevensey

The Pevensey Rape lies between the Rapes of Lewes and Hastings. In 1833 it contained 19 hundreds and 52 parishes[54]

Warwickshire

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
    • Atherstone
    • Birmingham
    • Solihull
    • Tamworth
  • Kington (also Kineton)
    • Brailes
    • Burton Dassett
    • Kington
    • Warwick
  • Knightlow
    • Kenilworth
    • Kirby
    • Rugby
    • Southam

Westmorland

Westmorland was divided into four wards, analogous to hundreds. Pairs of wards made up the two Baronies. From Magna Britannica et Hibernia (1736) [13]

Barony of Kendal

The Barony of Kendal had two wards:

Barony of Westmorland

The Barony of Westmorland had two wards:

Wiltshire

Domesday Hundreds

With some variations in the names, the Domesday hundreds were:

Hundreds in 1835

From GENUKI [14]

Worcestershire

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Worcestershire in 1832

The ancient hundreds in 1086 at the time of the Domesday survey were:[57] 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, 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:

Yorkshire

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Yorkshire in 1832

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Main article: list of wapentakes in Yorkshire

Yorkshire has three Ridings,[62] 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 Amourdness and Lonsdale in Lancashire plus part of Westmorland were considered as part of Yorkshire in the Domesday Book.

East Riding of Yorkshire

From GENUKI [15]

The other division of the riding was Hullshire.

North Riding of Yorkshire

West Riding of Yorkshire

From GENUKI [16]

The Cantrefi of Wales

Cantrefi of Medieval Wales

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Main article: Cantref

Kingdom of Gwynedd

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Main article: Kingdom of Gwynedd

Anglesey

The modern county of Anglesey was part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. It is divided into three cantrefi or hundreds,[63] and these into six cymydau, or commotes; the three districts are Cemais, Aberffraw cantref, and Rhosyr cantref; the six commotes are Llyfon, Maltraeth, Menai, Talybolion, Twrcelyn, and Tyndarthwy.[64]

Gwynedd

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Main article: Gwynedd

Caernarvonshire

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Main article: Caernarfonshire

Caernarvonshire was created under the terms of the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 following Edward I of England's conquest of the Principality of Wales and included the cantrefi of: Llŷn, Arfon, Arllechwedd and the commote of Eifionydd (the northern portion of Dunoding).[65]

The county was divided into ten hundreds based on the existing Welsh commotes: Cymydmaen (anglicised as Commitmaen), Creuddyn, Dinllaen, Eifionydd (Evionydd), Cafflogion (Gaflogion), Llechwedd Isaf (...Isav), Llechwedd Uchaf (...Uchav), Nant Conwy (Nant-Conway), Is Gwyrfai (Isgorvai) and Uwch Gwyrfai (Uchgorvai).[66][67][68] Creuddyn, a commote of Cantref Rhos in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, later came into the boundary of Caernarvonshire.[69]

Cardiganshire

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Main articles: Kingdom of Ceredigion and Ceredigion

When Edward I of England conquered Wales in 1282, he divided it into counties. Cardiganshire was an Anglicisation of the name for the historic kingdom of Ceredigion. It was one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. The hundreds of Cardiganshire were Genau'r-Glyn, Ilar, Moyddyn, Penarth and Troedyraur.[70][71]

Carmarthenshire

From GENUKI [17]

Denbighshire

From Vision of Britain [18]

Flintshire

From Vision of Britain [19].

Glamorgan

From GENUKI [20]

Merionethshire

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [21]

Monmouthshire

From Genuki [22]. All split into Upper and Lower divisions.

Pembrokeshire

From GENUKI [23]

Powys

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Main articles: Powys and Kingdom of Powys

Brecknockshire

From GENUKI [24]

Montgomeryshire

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Main article: Montgomeryshire

Radnorshire

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Main article: Radnorshire

From GENUKI [25].

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