Thurston village sign depicting "Theodward's tree"

Thedwastre (also Thedwestry) was a hundred of the county of Suffolk, England covering an area of 40,362 acres (163.34 km2). It formed part of the Liberty of Saint Edmund, under the jurisdiction of the abbots of Bury St Edmunds.

The hundred is about twelve miles (19 km) in length and six miles (10 km) wide. It is bounded on the west by the borough of Bury St Edmunds and Thingoe Hundred, on the north and east by Blackbourn and Stow Hundreds, and on the south by Cosford and Babergh Hundreds. It is a fertile district with undulating terrain and watered by streams which rise within its limits and feeding the rivers Thet, Gipping, Lark and Brett.[1]

It is in the Deanery of Thedwestry, the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, the Diocese of Ely and Liberty of St Edmund. It contains no town of any size, but Bury and Ixworth are on its borders.

Listed as Theivardestreu in the Domesday Book, the name derives from "Theodward's tree", presumably a notable tree where the Hundred Court used to meet in Thurston.[2]

Parishes

Suffolk hundreds
Suffolk hundreds

Thedwastre was made up of 24 parishes:[1][3]

Parish Area (acres)
Ampton870
Beyton626
Bradfield Combust800
Bradfield St Clare1428
Bradfield St George2000
Drinkstone2170
Felsham1605
Fornham St Genevieve700
Fornham St Martin1200
Gedding502
Great Barton3500
Great Welnetham1409
Hessett1568
Little Welnetham570
Livermere Magna1580
Pakenham3696
Rattlesden3200
Rougham3846
Rushbrooke1066
Stanningfield1431
Thurston2400
Timworth1220
Tostock975
Woolpit2000

References

  1. 1 2 William White (1844). History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk. p. 301.
  2. Walter Skeat (1913). The Place-names of Suffolk. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  3. F. A. Youngs Jr., Guide to the Administrative Units of England, Vol.1: Southern England, London, 1979

See also

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