List of hundreds of England and Wales
Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds from the late Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century.[1] In Wales there was a system of division by cantref (meaning a hundred farmsteads); in some areas, equivalent districts were known as "wapentakes", "cantrefs" (Welsh: cantrefi) or "wards". Some cantrefs and wapentakes were later referred to as hundreds.
Bedfordshire [edit]
- Barford
- Biggleswade
- Clifton
- Flitt
- Manshead
- Redbornestoke
- Stodden
- Willey
- Wixamtree
Berkshire [edit]
From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868)
- Beynhurst
- Bray
- Hundred of Charlton
- Compton
- Cookham
- Faircross
- Faringdon
- Ganfield
- Hundred of Hormer
- Kintbury Eagle
- Lambourn
- Moreton
- Ock
- Reading
- Ripplesmere
- Shrivenham
- Sonning
- Theale
- Wantage
- Wargrave
Buckinghamshire [edit]
Chiltern Hundreds [edit]
Cambridgeshire [edit]
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.[2][3]
Cheshire [edit]
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.
Domesday Hundreds [edit]
With some variations in the names, the Domesday hundreds were:
Later Hundreds [edit]
Atiscross and Exestan were lost to Wales, and a merging and amalgamation of the rest with a renaming led to the following hundreds:
Cornwall [edit]
In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrev
From GENUKI [2]
- Penwith Hundred (Penwyth)
- Kerrier Hundred (Keryer)
- Pydarshire (Pedera)
- Powdershire (Pow Ereder)
- Triggshire (Trigor)
- Lesnewth Hundred (Lysnowyth)
- Stratton (Stradneth)
- West Wivelshire (Fawy)
- East Wivelshire (Ryslegh)
For some purposes, the Isles of Scilly were counted as a tenth hundred.
Cumberland [edit]
Cumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [3]
Derbyshire [edit]
Divided into hundreds (previously wapentakes). From GENUKI [4]
Devon [edit]
In 1850 there were thirty-two hundreds in Devon according to White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire[5]
Dorset [edit]
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County Durham [edit]
County Durham was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From an 1840 map of County Durham [5].
Essex [edit]
- Barstable (sometimes spelled Barnstable)
- Becontree
- Chafford
- Chelmsford
- Clavering
- Dengie
- 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 [6] the 1841 census also recorded Harwich hundred, which the Victoria County History places within Tendring.
Gloucestershire [edit]
From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [7]
- 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
- Upper Thornbury
- Westbury
- Westminster
- Whitstone (upper and lower divisions)
The Duchy of Lancaster (Gloucestershire) liberty was sometimes counted as a hundred.
Hampshire [edit]
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Herefordshire [edit]
From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) [8]
- Broxash
- Ewyas-Lacy
- Greytree
- Grimsworth
- Radlow
- Stretford
- Webtree
- Wigmore
- Wolphy
- Wormelow (upper and lower divisions)
Hertfordshire [edit]
(Danais & Tring added as per History of Hertfordshire)
- Braughing
- Broadwater
- Cashio
- Dacorum
- Danais (merged with Tring to form Dacorum)
- Edwintree
- Hertford
- Hitchin [9]
- Odsey
- Tring (merged with Danais to form Dacorum)
Huntingdonshire [edit]
Kent [edit]
From Kent Genealogy [10]. Kent was traditionally divided into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds.
East Kent [edit]
Lathes: St. Augustine, Scraye, Shepway
plus Romney Marsh Liberty
West Kent [edit]
plus the Lowey of Tonbridge
Lathe of Scraye (part)
Lancashire [edit]
Leicestershire [edit]
Leicestershire was originally divided into wapentakes, but these were usually later described as hundreds. From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica [11]
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 [edit]
Lincolnshire was divided into three Parts, each of which was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From map on Lincolnshire County Council website [12]
- Holland
- Kesteven
- Aswardhurn
- Aveland
- Boothby Graffoe (Higher and Lower divisions)
- Beltisloe
- Flaxwell
- Langoe (First and Second divisions)
- Loveden
- Ness
- Winnibriggs and Threo (wapentake)
- 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 (North and South divisions)
- Hill
- Louth-Eske (Marsh and Wold divisions)
- Wraggoe (East and West divisions)
- West Riding of Lindsey
- Aslacoe (East and West divisions)
- Corringham
- Manley (East, North, and West divisions)
- Lawress
- Well
Middlesex [edit]
- Edmonton
- Elthorne
- Gore
- Isleworth (recorded in 1086 as Hounslow)[7]
- Ossulstone
- Spelthorne
Norfolk [edit]
Northamptonshire [edit]
From the Northamptonshire Family History Society [13]
The liberty and Soke of Peterborough (now in Cambridgeshire) was sometimes called Nassaburgh hundred.
Northumberland [edit]
Northumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868) [14]
Nottinghamshire [edit]
Nottinghamshire was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire [15]
- Bassetlaw (North Clay, South Clay and Hatfield divisions)
- Bingham (North and South divisions)
- Broxtowe (North and South divisions)
- Newark (North and South divisions)
- Rushcliffe (North and South divisions)
- Thurgarton (North and South divisions)
Oxfordshire [edit]
From [9]
- Bampton
- Banbury
- Binfield
- Bloxham
- Bullingdon
- Chadlington
- Dorchester
- Ewelme
- Langtree
- Lewknor
- Pirton
- Ploughley
- Thame
- Wootton
Outside any hundred were the areas of Oxford City & University, Oxford City and Oxford Liberty.
Rutland [edit]
Shropshire [edit]
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From GENUKI [16]
- Bradford (North & South)
- Brimstrey
- Chirbury
- Clun
- Condover
- Ford
- Munslow (Upper & Lower)
- Oswestry
- Overs (in two parts)
- Pimhill
- Purslow
- Stottesdon
Somerset [edit]
From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland
Staffordshire [edit]
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From GENUKI [17]
Suffolk [edit]
Surrey [edit]
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There are thirteen hundreds and one half hundred:
Sussex [edit]
Sussex was divided into rapes, and then hundreds.
Arundel Rape [edit]
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.[11] In 1834 it contained five hundreds sub-divided into fifty six parishes.[12]
Bramber Rape [edit]
The Bramber Rape lies between the Rape of Arundel in the west and Lewes in the east. In 1834 it contained 40 parishes.[13]
- Brightford
- Burbeach
- West Grinstead (Grensted in the Domesday Survey)
- Poling (once known as Rieberge)
- Singlecross
- Steyning
- Tarring (a peculier of the Archbishop of Canterbury)
- Tipnoak
as well as 3 half hundreds
- East Easwrith
- Fishersgate
- Wyndham
Chichester Rape [edit]
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.[11] In 1834 it contained seven hundreds and seventy-four parishes.[14]
Hastings Rape [edit]
The Rape of Hastings was on the easternmost 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.[15]
- Baldslow
- Battle
- Bexhill
- Foxearle
- Goldspur
- Gostrow
- Guestling
- Hawksborough
- Henhurst
- Netherfield
- Ninfield
- Shoyswell
- Staple
Lewes Rape [edit]
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.[16]
- Barcombe
- Buttinghill
- Dean
- Fishergate
- Holmestrow
- Poynings
- Preston
- Street
- Swanborough
- Whalesbourne
- Younsmere (also Falmer)
Pevensey Rape [edit]
The Pevensey Rape lies between the Rapes of Lewes and Hastings. In 1833 it contained 19 hundreds and 52 parishes[17]
- 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 [edit]
Warwickshire was divided into four hundreds, with each hundred consisting of a number of divisions.
- Barlinchway (also Barlichway)
- Alcester
- Henley
- Snitterfield
- Stratford
- Hemlingford
- Atherstone
- Birmingham
- Solihull
- Tamworth
- Kington (also Kineton)
- Brailes
- Burton Dassett
- Kington
- Warwick
- Knightlow
- Kenilworth
- Kirby
- Rugby
- Southam
Westmorland [edit]
Westmorland was divided into four wards, analogous to hundreds. Pairs of wards made up the two Baronies. From Magna Britannica et Hibernia (1736) [18]
Barony of Kendal [edit]
Barony of Westmorland [edit]
Wiltshire [edit]
From GENUKI [19]
Worcestershire [edit]
Yorkshire [edit]
Yorkshire has three Ridings,[18] 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.
East Riding of Yorkshire [edit]
From GENUKI [20]
- Buckrose
- Dickering Wapentake
- Harthill Wapentake (Bainton Beacon, Holme Beacon, Hunsley Beacon and Wilton Beacon divisions)
- Holderness Wapentake (North, Middle and South divisions)
- Howdenshire
- Ouse and Derwent
The other division of the riding was Hullshire.
North Riding of Yorkshire [edit]
- Allerton
- Birdthorpe
- Bulmer
- Gilling East
- Gilling West
- Hallikeld
- Hang East
- Hang West
- Langbaurgh (West and East divisions)
- Pickering Lythe
- Ryedale
- Whitby Strand
West Riding of Yorkshire [edit]
From GENUKI [21]
- Agbrigg and Morley (Agbrigg and Morley divisions)
- Barkston Ash Wapentake
- Claro Wapentake (Upper and Lower divisions)
- Ewcross
- Osgoldcross Wapentake
- Skyrack (Upper and Lower divisions)
- Staincliffe Wapentake (East and West divisions)
- Staincross Wapentake
- Strafforth and Tickhill (Upper and Lower divisions)
The Cantrefi of Wales [edit]
Kingdom of Gwynedd [edit]
Anglesey [edit]
The modern county of Anglesey was part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. It is divided into three cantrefi or hundreds,[19] and these into six cymydau, or commotes; the three districts are Cemais, Aberffraw cantref, and Rhosyr cantref; the six commotes are Llyfon, Maltraeth, Menai, Talybolion, Twrcelyn, and Tyndarthwy.[20]
Gwynedd [edit]
Caernarvonshire [edit]
Caernarvonshire was created under the terms of the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 following Edward I of England's conquest of the Principality of Wales and included the cantrefi of: Llŷn, Arfon, Arllechwedd and the commote of Eifionydd (the northern portion of Dunoding).[21]
The county was divided into ten hundreds based on the existing Welsh commotes: Cymydmaen (anglicised as Commitmaen), Creuddyn, Dinllaen, Eifionydd (Evionydd), Cafflogion (Gaflogion), Llechwedd Isaf (...Isav), Llechwedd Uchaf (...Uchav), Nant Conwy (Nant-Conway), Is Gwyrfai (Isgorvai) and Uwch Gwyrfai (Uchgorvai).[22][23][24] Creuddyn, a commote of Cantref Rhos in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, later came into the boundary of Caernarvonshire.[25]
Cardiganshire [edit]
When Edward I of England conquered Wales in 1282, he divided it into counties. Cardiganshire was an Anglicisation of the name for the historic kingdom of Ceredigion. It was one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. The hundreds of Cardiganshire were Genau'r-Glyn, Ilar, Moyddyn, Penarth and Troedyraur.[26][27]
Carmarthenshire [edit]
From GENUKI [22]
Denbighshire [edit]
From Vision of Britain [23]
- Bromfield
- Chirk
- Denbigh
- Dogfeiling
- Is Aled
- Is Dulas
- Maelor Gymraeg
- Rhuthun
- Yale
Flintshire [edit]
From Vision of Britain [24].
Glamorgan [edit]
From GENUKI [25]
Merionethshire [edit]
From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland [26]
Monmouthshire [edit]
From Genuki [27]. All split into Upper and Lower divisions.
Pembrokeshire [edit]
From GENUKI [28]
Powys [edit]
Brecknockshire [edit]
Montgomeryshire [edit]
- Cawrse[28]
- Deythur[28]
- Arwystli - later the Hundred of Llanidloes[29]
- Llanfyllin[28]
- Machynlleth[28]
- Mathrafell[28]
- Montgomery (also Kerry)[28]
- Newtown[28]
- Welshpool[28]
Radnorshire [edit]
From GENUKI [30].
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