Manshead
Coordinates: 51°53′49″N 0°30′29″W / 51.897°N 0.508°W
Manshead was a hundred of Bedfordshire in England. It covered an area in the south-west of the county stretching from Salford to Studham and from Leighton Buzzard to Houghton Regis and Dunstable.[1]
The hundred was named after a site in Eversholt parish. The area west of the Watling Street is recorded in the Domesday Book as the half-hundred of Stanbridge, and there is also a mention of a hundred called Odecroft which may have covered the area south of the Ouzel Brook. By the early 14th century, these areas had effectively been incorporated into Manshead hundred.[2]
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[edit] Parishes
The hundred contained the following parishes:[3]
Aspley Guise, Battlesden, Chalgrave, Dunstable, Eaton Bray, Eversholt, Harlington, Hockliffe, Holcot, Houghton Regis, Husborne Crawley, Leighton Buzzard, Milton Bryan, Potsgrove, Salford, Studham, Tilsworth, Tingrith, Toddington, Totternhoe, Westoning, Whipsnade, Woburn
[edit] Recent use of the name
- When the Manshead Archaeological Society (www.manshead.org.uk) was formed in 1952, the name of the ancient hundred was chosen to embrace the intended area of activity.[4]
- Manshead Upper School (www.mansheadschool.co.uk) gained the name after much discussion in 1972 when comprehensive schools were introduced in Dunstable.[5]
- Since 2002, the Manshead electoral ward of South Bedfordshire (now Central Bedfordshire) has covered part of Dunstable near to Manshead School.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Vision of Britain: Manshead Hundred Boundaries.
- ^ F. R. Thorn, "Hundreds and wapentakes", in A. Williams and G. H. Martin (editors), The Bedfordshire Domesday, Alecto Historical Editions, 1991, ISBN 0-948459-84-0, pages 59, 63 and 64.
- ^ "Bedfordshire Hundreds". Bedfordshire County Council. http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/GuidesToCollections/Hundreds.aspx.
- ^ J. Schneider, "The Manshead Archaeological Society 1951–1991", Bedfordshire Archaeology, 20, page 96, 1992.
- ^ Northfields School 1936–1986, Dunstable Town Council, page 59.
- ^ The District of South Bedfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001.
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