Desborough (hundred)
Coordinates: 51°37′58″N 0°46′39″W / 51.63278°N 0.7775°W
| Desborough Hundred | |
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| Geography | |
| Status | Hundred |
| 1871 area | 45,337 acres (183.47 km2)[1] |
| HQ | Desborough Castle |
| History | |
| Created | 11th century |
| Abolished | 1880s |
| 1871 population | 19,198[2] |
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| Type | Parishes |
Desborough Hundred is a hundred in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the south of the county and is bounded on the west by Oxfordshire and on the south the River Thames marked the boundary with Berkshire.
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[edit] History
Until at least the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire. 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.[3] Desborough hundred is one of three hundreds which became collectively known as the Chiltern hundreds around the 13th century, the others being Burnham hundred and Stoke hundred. Even before this time these individual hundreds had become possessions of the Crown and were nominally stewarded as a royal bailiwick. The hundreds lost their collective 'Chilterns' title having become separately leased though retaining their individual administrative status as Buckinghamshire hundreds. Meanwhile the role of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds persisted in name only becoming an appointment of the House of Commons.
[edit] Parishes and hamlets
Desborough hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, (formerly medieval vills):[4]
| Bradenham | Ibstone(part of) | †Stokenchurch |
| Fawley | Great Marlow | Turville |
| Fingest | Little Marlow | Wooburn |
| Hambleden | Medmenham | Chepping Wycombe (later High Wycombe) |
| Hedsor | Radnage | West Wycombe |
| Hughenden | Saunderton |
† Stokenchurch was originally in Oxfordshire and transferred to Buckinghamshire in the latter part of the 19th century after the hundred was superseded.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Vision of Britain - Desborough Area Retrieved, May 23, 2009
- ^ Vision of Britain - Desborough Population Retrieved, May 23, 2009
- ^ Genuki - History of Buckinghaham Hundreds Retrieved, May 21, 2009
- ^ History on Line - Victoria County History - A History of the County of Buckingham - Desborough Hundred: Volume 3, (1925), pp. 32-34. Retrieved, May 23, 2009
