England in 1086 showing hundreds, wapentakes and wards

Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds or wapentakes from the late Anglo-Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century.[1]

In Wales a similar Celtic system of division called cantrefi (a hundred farmsteads) had existed for centuries and was of particular importance in the administration of the Welsh law. Following the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, Wales was divided into hundreds to be consistent with England.

Bedfordshire

Hundreds of Bedfordshire in 1832

Berkshire

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]

The Hundreds, Parishes and Boroughs of Berkshire
Hundred Area (acres) Parishes and Boroughs
Beynhurst 13,000 Bisham, Hurley, Remenham, Shottesbrook, White Waltham
Bray 9,102 Bray, Borough of Maidenhead
Charlton 12,940 Barkham, Finchampstead, Hurst, Shinfield, Swallowfield
Compton 18,190 Aldworth, Catmore, Chilton, Compton, East Ilsley, Farnborough, West Ilsley
Cookham 14,330 Binfield, Cookham, Sunninghill
Faircross 50,000 Beedon, Boxford, Bright Walton, Brimpton, Chieveley, Frilsham, Hampstead Norris, Borough of Newbury, Peasemore, Sandleford, Shaw cum Donnington, Speen, Stanford Dingley, Wasing, Welford, Yattendon
Faringdon[2] 10,000 Great Coxwell, Great Faringdon (part)[5] Parishes of the hundred were transferred to Oxfordshire on 1 April 1974.
Ganfield 17,000 Buckland, Hatford, Hinton Waldrist, Longworth, Pusey, Shellingford, Stanford in the Vale
Hormer 21,550 Borough of Abingdon, Bagley Wood, Besselsleigh, Cumnor, North Hinksey, Radley, St Helen (part), Seacourt, South Hinksey, Sunningwell, Wytham
Kintbury Eagle 42,560 Formed in the 16th century by combining parishes of the hundred of Kintbury (Avington, Enborne, Hampstead Marshall, Hungerford, Inkpen, Kintbury, Shalbourne, West Woodhay) and parishes of the hundred of Eagle (Chaddleworth, East Challow, East Shefford, Fawley with Whatcombe, Letcombe Bassett, Letcombe Regis, West Challow, West Shefford). Parts of Hungerford and Shalbourne parishes were in the hundred of Kinwardstone[6] in Wiltshire.[7] The Berkshire portions of Shalbourne were transferred to Wiltshire in 1895.[8][9]
Lambourn 19,400 East Garston, Lambourn
Moreton 28,700 Ashampstead, Aston Tirrold, Basildon, Brightwell, Didcot, East Hagbourne, Harwell, Moulsford, North Moreton, Sotwell, South Moreton, Streatley, Borough of Wallingford, West Hagbourne
Ock 28,250 Appleton, Drayton, Fyfield, Kingston Bagpuize, Marcham, Milton, Steventon, Sutton Courtney, Tubney, Little Wittenham, Long Wittenham
Reading 37,510 Blewbury, Bucklebury, Cholsey, Pangbourne, Borough of Reading, Sulhampstead Abbots, Thatcham, Tilehurst
Ripplesmere 22,710 Clewer, Easthampstead, Old Windsor, Winkfield, Borough of Windsor[10]
Shrivenham 34,490 Ashbury, Buscot, Coleshill, Compton Beauchamp, Eaton Hastings, Shrivenham, Uffington
Sonning 21,830 Arborfield, Ruscombe, Sandhurst, Sonning, Wokingham
Theale 28,160 Aldermaston, Bradfield, Burghfield, Englefield, Padworth, Purley, Stratfield Mortimer, Sulham, Sulhampstead Bannister, Tidmarsh, Ufton Nervet, Woolhampton
Wantage 28,160 Ardington, Childrey, Denchworth, East Garston, East Hendred, East Lockinge, Sparsholt, West Hanney, West Hendred, West Lockinge, Wantage
Wargrave 11,220 Waltham St. Laurence, Warfield, Wargrave

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire Hundreds in 1832

Until at least the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire.[11] 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.[12]

Chiltern Hundreds

Cambridgeshire

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.[13][14]

Hundred Area (acres) Parishes
Armingford29287Abington Pigotts, Bassingbourn, Croydon, East Hatley, Guilden Morden, Litlington, Melbourn, Meldreth, Royston (part), Shingay, Steeple Morden, Tadlow, Wendy, Whaddon
Chesterton15847Chesterton, Childerley, Cottenham, Dry Drayton, Histon
Cheveley12905Ashley, Cheveley, Kirtling, Newmarket All Saints, Wood Ditton
Chilford22364Babraham, Bartlow, Castle Camps, Great Abington, Hildersham, Horseheath, Linton, Little Abington, Pampisford, Shudy Camps, West Wickham
Ely42667Downham, Littleport
Flendish11906Cherry Hinton, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, Horningsea, Teversham
Longstow25500Bourn, Caldecote, Caxton, Croxton, Eltisley, Gamlingay, Great Eversden, Hardwick, Hatley St. George, Kingston, Little Eversden, Little Gransden, Longstowe, Toft
North Witchford86275Chatteris, Doddington, March, Whittlesey
Northstow19651Girton, Impington, Landbeach, Lolworth, Longstanton, Madingley, Milton, Oakington, Rampton, Waterbeach
Papworth26923Boxworth, Conington, Elsworth, Fen Drayton, Graveley, Knapwell, Over, Papworth St Agnes, Papworth Everard, Swavesey, Willingham
Radfield23869Balsham, Brinkley, Burrough Green, Carlton-cum-Willingham, Dullingham, Stetchworth, West Wratting, Westley Waterless, Weston Colville
South Witchford37462Coveney, Grunty Fen, Haddenham, Manea, Mepal, Sutton, Stretham and Thetford,[15] Welches Dam, Wentworth, Wilburton, Witcham, Witchford
Staine18917Bottisham, Great Wilbraham, Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Stow-cum-Quy
Staploe40775Burwell, Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett, Landwade, Snailwell, Soham, Wicken
Thriplow16160Fowlmere, Foxton, Great Shelford, Harston, Hauxton, Little Shelford, Newton, Stapleford, Thriplow, Trumpington
Wetherley16160Arrington, Barrington, Barton, Comberton, Coton, Grantchester, Harlton, Haslingfield, Orwell, Shepreth, Wimpole
Whittlesford11078Duxford, Hinxton, Ickleton, Sawston, Whittlesford
Wisbech61157Elm, Leverington, Newton, Outwell, Parson Drove, Thorney, Tydd St. Giles, Upwell, Wisbech, Wisbech St. Mary

Cheshire

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.

Cornwall

In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrev

Hundreds of Cornwall in 1832

From GENUKI Genuki: Cornwall, Cornwall

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

Cumberland

Map of Cumberland showing wards, 1824

Cumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland Genuki: CUMBERLAND, England - History and Description, 1868, Cumberland

Derbyshire

Map of the County of Derbyshire in 1832

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.[16] Divided into hundreds by 1273. From GENUKI Genuki: DERBYSHIRE, England - History and Description, 1868, Derbyshire (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,[17] and in the Hundred-Roll of 1273, Littlechirch; by 1300 combined as the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch.[18]
  • 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

Devon Hundreds in 1832

In 1850 there were thirty-two hundreds in Devon according to White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire[19]

Dorset

Dorset Hundreds in 1834

County Durham

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

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

Essex

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 Hundreds in the  Essex 1841 census 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 Genuki: Miscellaneous Places, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire

  • 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[21]
  • Upper Thornbury[22]
  • 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.

Hampshire

The Domesday Survey mentions 44 hundreds in Hampshire,[23] recorded as HanteScire and abbreviated as Hante.[24] By the 14th century the number had been reduced to 37. The hundreds of East Medina and West Medina in the Isle of Wight are mentioned in 1316. The Isle of Wight obtained a county council of its own in 1890 and became a full ceremonial county in 1974.

Hampshire has in the past been named Southamptonshire and is so recorded in the Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653. The name of the administrative county was changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire' on 1 April 1959. The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants.

The 44 Domesday-era hundreds were: Amesbury, Andover, Ashley, Barton, Basingstoke, Bermondspit, Bosbarrow, Bosham, Bountisborough, Bowcombe, Brightford, Broughton, Buddlesgate, Calbourne, Chalton, Charldon, Chuteley, Crondall, Droxford, East Meon, Edgegate, Evingar, Falemere, Fareham, Farringdon, Fawley, Fordingbridge, Hoddington, Holdshott, Hurstbourne, Kingsclere, Mansbridge, Meonstoke, Micheldever, Neatham, Odiham, Overton, Portsdown, Redbridge, Ringwood, Somborne, Titchfield, Waltham, Welford

Hampshire Hundreds in 1832

In the 19th century, the hundreds were listed as:

  • Alton
  • Andover
  • Barton Stacey
  • Basingstoke
  • Bermondspit
  • Bishop's Sutton
  • Bishop's Waltham
  • Bosmere
  • Bountisborough
  • Buddlesgate
  • Christchurch
  • Chuteley
  • Crondall
  • East Medina (also described as a liberty)
  • East Meon
  • Evingar
  • Fareham
  • Fawley
  • Finchdean
  • Fordingbridge
  • Hambledon
  • Holdshot
  • Kingsclere
  • King's Somborne[25]
  • Mainsborough
  • Mansbridge
  • Meonstoke
  • Micheldever
  • New Forest
  • Odiham
  • Overton
  • Pastrow
  • Portsdown
  • Redbridge
  • Ringwood
  • Selborne
  • Thorngate
  • Titchfield
  • West Medina (also described as a liberty)
  • Wherwell

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. 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.[26]

From Domesday (1086):

Herefordshire hundreds in 1755

From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) Genuki: Miscellaneous Places, Herefordshire, Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Hundreds in 1832

(Danais & Tring added as per History of Hertfordshire)[48]

Huntingdonshire

Kent

Kent Hundreds in 1832

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

The hundreds contained parishes and portions of parishes. In many regions of England as well as Kent, an entire parish would be within one hundred, yet especially along rivers and estuaries which had previously seen invasion, the Kentish hundreds were smaller in area and "shared" parishes to institutionalize resiliency and collective responsibility for defence and justice.

East Kent

Lathe of St. Augustine

  • Bewsborough (Bewsbury)
  • Blengate
  • Bridge and Petham
  • Cornilo (Corniloe)
  • Downhamford
  • Eastry
  • Kinghamford
  • Preston
  • Ringslow
  • Westgate
  • Whitstaple (the former spelling of Whitstable)
  • Wingham

Lathe of Scraye

Lathe of Scraye formed by mid-1200s from the half lathe of Milton (which consisted of the hundred of Milton and the Isle of Sheppey) and the Lathe of Wye (which consisted of the Isle of Harty (which is conjoined to the Isle of Sheppey) and many additional hundreds.

  • Boughton under Blean (Boughton)
  • Calehill
  • Chart and Longbridge
  • Faversham (included the Isle of Harty)
  • Felborough
  • Milton
  • Teynham (included the parish of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey)
  • Wye

Due to a judicial administrative reform in the mid-19th century, the some hundreds of the Lathe of Scray were moved from East Kent administration to West Kent administration:

  • Barkley
  • Blackborne (Blackbourne)
  • Cranbrook
  • East Barnfield
  • Marden
  • Rolvenden
  • Selbrittenden
  • Tenterden

Lathe of Shepway

  • Aloesbridge
  • Bircholt
  • Folkestone
  • Ham
  • Heane
  • Langport (Longport)
  • Loningborough
  • Newchurch
  • Oxney
  • St Martin Pountney
  • Stowting (Stouting)
  • Strete (the former spelling of Street)
  • Worth

The Lathe of Shepway also included the Cinque Port Liberty of New Romney in Romney Marsh,[49] with the parish of Lydd as a limb of the Liberty.

West Kent

Lathe of Sutton at Hone

Lathe of Aylesford

  • Barnfield
  • Brenchley and Horsmonden
  • Chatham and Gillingham
  • Eyhorne
  • Hoo
  • Larkfield
  • Littlefield
  • Maidstone
  • Shamwell

plus the Lowey of Tonbridge

Lathe of Scraye (part)

In 1857 the provisions of the Act of 9 Geo. IV were invoked to re-examine the whole structure of Lathes and their divisions in providing for the administration of justice. The Lower Division of the Lathe of Scray, which formed the southernmost part of the Lathe, became part of West Kent, and consisted of the following Hundreds:

  • Barkley
  • Blackborne
  • Cranbrook
  • East Barnfield
  • Marden
  • Rolvenden
  • Selbrittenden
  • Tenterden

Lancashire

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[50] 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 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:[51]

Parts of Holland
Parts of Kesteven
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[53] (North and South divisions)
  • Hill
  • Louth-Eske (Marsh and Wold divisions)
  • Wraggoe (East and West divisions)
West Riding of Lindsey

Middlesex

Norfolk

[56]

  • Blofield
  • Brothercross
  • Clackclose
  • Clavering
  • Depwade
  • Diss
  • Earsham
  • East Flegg
  • Eynesford
  • Forehoe
  • Freebridge-Lynn
  • Freebridge-Marshland
  • Gallow
  • Grimshoe
  • Guiltcross
  • Happing
  • Henstead
  • Holt
  • Humbleyard
  • Launditch
  • Loddon
  • Mitford
  • North Erpingham
  • North Greenhoe
  • Shropham
  • Smithdon
  • South Erpingham
  • South Greenhoe
  • Taverham
  • Tunstead
  • Walsham
  • Wayland
  • West Flegg

Northamptonshire

In 1086, there were 39 hundreds in the county:[57] Alboldstow, Alwardsley, Barcheston, Beltisloe, Bloxham, Bumbelowe, Cleyley, Coleshill, Collingtree, Corby, Cuttlestone, Fawsley (Foxley), Gravesend (later absorbed into Fawsley Hundred),[58] Guilsborough, Hamfordshoe, Higham, Hunesberi, Huxloe, Kirtlington, Mawsley, Navisford, Navisland, Ness, Nobottle, Offlow, Orlingbury, Polebrook, Rothwell, Spelhoe, Stoke (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),[59] Stotfold, Sutton, Towcester, Upton, Warden, Willybrook, Witchley, Wootton and Wymersley.

From the Northamptonshire Family History Society[60] the hundreds in the 1800s are:

  • Chipping Warden
  • Cleyley
  • Corby
  • Fawsley[61]
  • Greens Norton
  • Guilsborough[62]
  • Hamfordshoe
  • Higham Ferrers
  • Huxloe
  • King's Sutton
  • Nobottle Grove
  • Orlingbury
  • Polebrook
  • Rothwell
  • Spelhoe
  • Towcester
  • Willybrook
  • Wymersley

The liberty and Soke of Peterborough 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.[63] The wards were analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) GENUKI: The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Northumberland

  • Bamburgh
  • Castle[64]
  • Coquetdale
  • Glendale[65]
  • Morpeth
  • Tynedale

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire Wapentakes in 1832

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

Oxfordshire

From[66]

Rutland

Map of Rutland; by George Carrington Gray (1824)
  • Alstoe
  • East
  • Martinsley
  • Oakham
  • Wrandike

Shropshire

Shropshire Hundreds in 1832

From GENUKI[83]

  • Bradford North (Drayton & Whitchurch Divisions)[84]
  • Bradford South (Newport & Wellington Divisions)
  • Brimstree† (Bridgnorth, Halesowen & Shifnal Divisions)
  • Chirbury (Upper & Lower Divisions)
  • Clun (Clun & Mainstone Divisions)
  • Condover (Condover & Cound Divisions)
  • Ford (Ford & Pontesbury Divisions)
  • Munslow (Upper & Lower Divisions)
  • Oswestry (Upper & Lower Divisions)
  • Overs (in two detached parts)
  • Pimhill (Baschurch & Ellesmere Divisions)
  • Purslow (Bishop's Castle & Stow Divisions)
  • Shrewsbury‡ (Castle Ward, Stone Ward & Welsh Ward Divisions)
  • Stottesdon (Chelmarsh & Cleobury Divisions)
  • Wenlock‡ (First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth & Seventh Divisions)

† — 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").[85]

Somerset

Hundreds of Somerset in 1832

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland

Staffordshire

Hundreds of Staffordshire in 1832

From GENUKI[86]

Suffolk

[87]

Surrey

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

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.[88] In 1834 it contained five hundreds sub-divided into fifty six parishes.[89]

Bramber Rape

The Bramber Rape lies between the Rape of Arundel in the west and Lewes in the east. In 1834 it contained 40 parishes[90] in the following hundreds:

as well as 3 half hundreds

  • East Easwrith
  • Fishersgate
  • Wyndham

Chichester Rape

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.[88] In 1834 it contained seven hundreds and seventy-four parishes.[91]

  • Aldwick
  • Bosham
  • Box and Stockbridge
  • Dumpford
  • Easebourne
  • Manhood
  • Westbourne and Singleton

Hastings Rape

Medieval sources talk of a group of people who were separate to that of the South Saxons they were known as the Haestingas. The area of Sussex they occupied became the Rape of Hastings.[92] It encompassed the easternmost part of Sussex, with the county of Kent to its east and the Rape of Pevensey to its west. The Anglo-Saxon hundred of Hailesaltede[93] was later partitioned into Battle Hundred and Netherfield Hundred. In 1833, the Rape of Hastings had 13 hundreds giving a total of about 154,060 acres.[94]

Lewes Rape

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.[95]

  • Barcombe
  • Buttinghill
  • Dean
  • Fishergate
  • Holmestrow
  • Poynings
  • Preston
  • Street
  • Swanborough
  • Whalesbourne
  • Younsmere (also Falmer)

Pevensey Rape

The Pevensey Rape lies between the Rapes of Lewes and Hastings. In 1833 it contained 19 hundreds and 52 parishes[96]

  • Alciston
  • Bishopstone
  • Danehill Horsted
  • Dill
  • Eastbourne
  • East Grinstead (Grinsted in the Domesday survey)
  • Flexborough
  • Hartfield
  • Lindfield Burley-Arches (also Burarches)
  • Lowey or Liberty of Pevensey - Part of Port of Hastings, so having the immunities and privileges of the Cinque Ports.
  • Loxfield Camden
  • Loxfield Dorset
  • Longbridge
  • Ringmer
  • Rotherfield
  • Rushmonden
  • Shiplake
  • Totnore
  • Willingdon

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, formerly named Coleshill
    • 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) Genuki: Westmorland, Westmorland

Barony of Kendal

The Barony of Kendal had two wards:

  • Kendal
  • Lonsdale

Barony of Westmorland

The Barony of Westmorland had two wards:

  • East Ward
  • West Ward

Wiltshire

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

  • Alderbury
  • Amesbury
  • Bradford
  • Branch and Dole
  • Calne
  • Cawden and Cadworth
  • Chalk
  • Chippenham
  • Damersham
  • Downton
  • Dunworth
  • Elstub and Everley
  • Frustfield
  • Heytesbury
  • Highworth
  • North Damerham
  • Potterne and Cannings
  • Ramsbury
  • Selkley
  • South Damerham

Worcestershire

Worcestershire in 1832

The ancient hundreds in 1086 at the time of the Domesday survey were:[97] Ash, Came,[98] 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:

Yorkshire

Yorkshire in 1832

Yorkshire has three Ridings,[104] 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.

East Riding

From GENUKI GENUKI: Definitions of the terms used to describe areas of land and habitation in the county of Yorkshire.

The other division of the riding was Hullshire.

North Riding

  • Allerton
  • Birdforth
  • Bulmer
  • Gilling East
  • Gilling West
  • Hallikeld
  • Hang East
  • Hang West
  • Langbaurgh (West and East divisions)
  • Pickering Lythe – Formed from the Domesday wapentake of Dic, and additionally by 1284–85 the parish of Sinnington and by (circa 15th-16th century) the parish of Kirkby Misperton, both from the Domesday wapentake of Maneshou.[105]
  • Ryedale – First mentioned by name in 1165–66, probably when its court was relocated there. Formed from the Domesday wapentake of Maneshou minus Sinnington and Kirkby Misperton parishes, plus the additional parish of Lastingham from the Domesday wapentake of Dic.[105] In the 19th century, Ryedale contained the parishes of Ampleforth; Appleton-Le-Street; Barton-Le-Street; Great Edston; Gilling; Helmsley; Hovingham; Kirkby Moorside; Kirkdale; Lastingham; New Malton, including the parishes of St. Leonard and St. Michael; Old Malton; Normanby; Nunnington; Oswaldkirk; Salton; Scawton; Slingsby; Stonegrave.[105]
  • Whitby Strand

West Riding

From GENUKI GENUKI: Definitions of the terms used to describe areas of land and habitation in the county of Yorkshire.

The Hundreds of Wales

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.

Anglesey

Anglesey was divided into six hundreds:[106] [107]

Brecknockshire

Brecknockshire was divided into six hundreds. [108] [109]

Caernarvonshire

Caernarvonshire was divided into ten hundreds: [110] [111]

  • Commitmaen
  • Creuddyn
  • Dinlaen
  • Eifionydd
  • Cafflogion
  • Isaf
  • Uchaf
  • Nanconwy
  • Is Gwyrfai
  • Uwch Gwyrfai

Cardiganshire

Cardiganshire was divided into five hundreds.[112] [113]

  • Genaur Glyn
  • Ilar
  • Moyddyn
  • Penarth
  • Troedyraur

Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire was divided into eight hundreds.[114] [115]

Denbighshire

Denbighshire was divided into six hundreds:[116] [117]

Flintshire

Flintshire was divided into five hundreds: [118] [119]

Glamorgan

Glamorgan was divided into ten hundreds: [120] [121]

  • Caerphilly
  • Cowbridge
  • Dinas Powys
  • Kibbor
  • Llangyfelach
  • Miskin
  • Neath
  • Newcastle
  • Ogmore
  • Swansea

Merionethshire

Merionethshire was divided into five hundreds: [122] [123]

Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire was divided into five hundreds: [124] [125]

Montgomeryshire

Montgomeryshire was divided into eight hundreds: [126] [127]

Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire was divided into seven hundreds: [128] [129]

Radnorshire

Radnorshire was divided into six hundreds: [130] [131]

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