List of hundreds of England and Wales

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This is a list of hundreds of England and Wales. Most English counties were divided into hundreds from the late Saxon period and were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the nineteenth century.[1] In some areas, equivalent districts were known as "wapentakes", "cantrefs" or "wards". The cantref and some wapentakes later became known as hundreds.

Except where stated, lists are from the Victoria County History. This is not an authoritative list, as hundreds were variable and sources differ.

Contents

[edit] Anglesey

From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) [2]

[edit] Bedfordshire

Main article: Hundreds of Bedfordshire

[edit] Berkshire

From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868)

[edit] Brecknockshire

From GENUKI [3]

[edit] Buckinghamshire

[edit] Chiltern Hundreds

[edit] Caernarvonshire

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [4]

[edit] Cardiganshire

From GENUKI [5]

[edit] Carmarthenshire

From GENUKI [6]

[edit] Cambridgeshire

Main article: Hundreds of Cambridgeshire

[edit] Cheshire

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 0197227619.

[edit] Domesday Hundreds

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

[edit] 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:

[edit] Cornwall

Main article: Hundreds of Cornwall

In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrev

From GENUKI [7]

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

[edit] Cumberland

Cumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [8]

[edit] Denbighshire

From Vision of Britain [9]

[edit] Derbyshire

Divided into hundreds (previously wapentakes). From GENUKI [10]

[edit] Devon

From GENUKI [2]

[edit] Dorset

Dorset Hundreds in 1834
Main article: List of hundreds in Dorset

[edit] County Durham

County Durham was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From an 1840 map of County Durham [11].

[edit] Essex

Main article: Hundreds of Essex

According to essex1841.com [12] the 1841 census also recorded Harwich hundred, which the Victoria County History places within Tendring.

[edit] Flintshire

From Vision of Britain [13].

[edit] Gloucestershire

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [14]

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

[edit] Glamorgan

From GENUKI [15]

[edit] Hampshire

[edit] Herefordshire

From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) [16]

[edit] Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Hundreds in 1832

(Danais & Tring added as per History of Hertfordshire)


[edit] Huntingdonshire

Main article: Hundreds of Huntingdonshire

[edit] Kent

From Kent Genealogy [18]. Kent was traditionally divided into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds.

[edit] East Kent

[edit] West Kent

[edit] Lancashire

Lancashire Hundreds in 1834


[edit] Leicestershire

Leicestershire was originally divided into wapentakes, but these were usually later described as hundreds. From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica [19]

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.

[edit] Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire was divided into three Parts, each of which was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From map on Lincolnshire County Council website [20]

[edit] Holland

[edit] Kesteven

[edit] Lindsey

[edit] North Riding of Lindsey

[edit] South Riding of Lindsey

[edit] West Riding of Lindsey

[edit] Merionethshire

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [21]

[edit] Middlesex

[edit] Monmouthshire

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

[edit] Montgomeryshire

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [23].

[edit] Norfolk

Main article: Hundreds of Norfolk

[5]

[edit] Northamptonshire

From the Northamptonshire Family History Society [24]

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

[edit] Northumberland

Northumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) [25]

[edit] Nottinghamshire

Map of Nottinghamshire Wapentakes

Nottinghamshire was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire [26]


[edit] Oxfordshire

From [6]

Outside any hundred were the areas of Oxford City & University, Oxford City and Oxford Liberty.

[edit] Pembrokeshire

From GENUKI [27]

[edit] Radnorshire

From GENUKI [28].

[edit] Rutland

[edit] Shropshire

From GENUKI [29]

[edit] Somerset

From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [30]

[edit] Staffordshire

From GENUKI [31]

[edit] Suffolk

Main article: Hundreds of Suffolk

[7]

[edit] Surrey

There are thirteen hundreds and one half hundred:

[edit] Sussex

Sussex Hundreds in 1834

Sussex was divided into rapes, and then hundreds.

[edit] 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.[8] In 1834 it contained five hundreds sub-divided into fifty six parishes.[9]

[edit] Bramber Rape

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.[10]

as well as 3 half hundreds

  • East Easwrith
  • Fishersgate
  • Wyndham

[edit] 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.[8] In 1834 it contained seven hundreds and seventy-four parishes.[11]

[edit] Hastings Rape

The Rape of Hastings was on the eastern most 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.[12]

[edit] 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.[13]

[edit] Pevensey Rape

The Pevensey Rape lies between the Rapes of Lewes and Hastings. In 1833 it contained 19 hundreds and 52 parishes[14]

[edit] Warwickshire

[edit] Westmorland

Westmorland was divided into four wards, analogous to hundreds. Pairs of wards made up the two Baronies. From Magna Britannica et Hibernia (1736) [32]

[edit] Barony of Kendal

[edit] Barony of Westmorland

[edit] Wiltshire

From GENUKI [33]

[edit] Worcestershire

[edit] Yorkshire

Main article: list of wapentakes in Yorkshire

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

The Ainsty wapentake, at time associated with either the East Riding or West Riding, came to be associated 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.

[edit] East Riding of Yorkshire

From GENUKI [34]

The other division of the riding was Hullshire.

[edit] North Riding of Yorkshire

[edit] West Riding of Yorkshire

From GENUKI [35]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice (1906). English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: The Parish and the County. London: Longman's Green and Company. pp. 284–285. 
  2. ^ "The Hundreds Of Devon". GENUKI. http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Hundreds.html. Retrieved 2011-06-20. 
  3. ^ "Alvredesberge Hundred was broken up after 1086 and contributed Cranborne, Boveridge, Edmondsham and Pentridge to the later Cranborne Hundred; Brockington to Knowlton Hundred and Wimborne St Giles (see Book of Fees, p. 92; and 10,3 Wimborne note) to the later Wimborne Hundred", quoted from: [1]
  4. ^ The hundred of Isleworth, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3, (1962), Date accessed: 6 January 2008.
  5. ^ William White (1845). History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2UIJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA14. 
  6. ^ Vision of Britain website
  7. ^ William White (1844). History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk. p. 15. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZgxIAAAAMAAJ&num=100&pg=PA15#v=onepage. 
  8. ^ a b "'The rape of Chichester: Introduction', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4 (1953) pp. 1 - 2.". http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41682. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  9. ^ Horsfield. History of Sussex. Volume II pp.105-184
  10. ^ Horsfield. History of Sussex. Volume II pp.185-274
  11. ^ Horsfield. History of Sussex. Volume II pp.1-104
  12. ^ Horsfield. History of Sussex. Volume II pp.425-592
  13. ^ Horsfield. History of Sussex. Volume I pp.103-268.
  14. ^ Horsfield. History of Sussex. Volume I pp.269-424

[edit] References

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