List of hundreds of England
Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds or wapentakes from the late Anglo-Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century.
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
The County of Berkshire comprised 20 hundreds and 193 parishes and parts of four others. From , Victoria County History Berkshire Vol 3 & Vol 4Buckinghamshire
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 eight larger hundreds, as follows:- Ashendon Hundred
- Aylesbury Hundred – consolidated from the 11th century Aylesbury, Risborough and Stone hundreds
- Buckingham Hundred
- Cottesloe Hundred
- Newport Hundred
Cambridgeshire
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.Cheshire
Cornwall
In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrevFrom GENUKI
For some purposes, the Isles of Scilly were counted as a tenth hundred.
Cumberland
Cumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds.- Allerdale-above-Derwent
- Allerdale-below-Derwent
- Cumberland
- Eskdale
- Leath
Derbyshire
The civil divisions of Derbyshire were anciently called wapentakes. In the Domesday Survey of 1086 are mentioned the wapentakes of Scarvedale, Hamestan, Morlestan, Walecross, and Apultre, and a district called Peche-fers. Divided into hundreds by 1273.:- High Peak—Hamestan wapentake and perhaps Peche-fers district in 1086; Peck wapentake by 1273.
- Wirksworth—Called a wapentake as late as 1817.
- Scarsdale
- Morleston and Litchurch—Called in the Domesday Survey of 1086, Morlestan or Morleystone wapentake and Littlechurch wapentake, and in the Hundred-Roll of 1273, Littlechirch; by 1300 combined as the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch.
- Appletree
- Repton and Gresley—In 1274 formed the separate wapentakes of Repindon and Greselegh ; in 1086 the large Walecross wapentake.
Devon
In 1850 there were thirty-two hundreds in Devon according to ''White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire''County Durham
County Durham was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From an 1840 map of County Durham .- Chester
- Darlington
- Durham City
- Easington
- Stockton
Essex
According to essex1841.com the 1841 census also recorded Harwich hundred, which the Victoria County History places within Tendring.Gloucestershire
The thirty-nine hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the thirty-one hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the twenty-eight hundreds of the present day.From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland
The Duchy of Lancaster (Gloucestershire) liberty was sometimes counted as a hundred.
Hampshire
The Domesday Survey mentions 44 hundreds in Hampshire, recorded as HanteScire and abbreviated as Hante. By the 14th century the number had been reduced to 37. The hundreds of East Medina and West Medina in the Isle of Wight are mentioned in 1316. The Isle of Wight obtained a county council of its own in 1890 and became a full ceremonial county in 1974.Hampshire has in the past been named Southamptonshire and is so recorded in the Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653. The name of the administrative county was changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire' on 1 April 1959. The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants.
The 44 Domesday-era hundreds were: Amesbury, Andover, Ashley, Barton, Basingstoke, Bermondspit, Bosbarrow, Bosham, Bountisborough, Bowcombe, Brightford, Broughton, Buddlesgate, Calbourne, Chalton, Charldon, Chuteley, Crondall, Droxford, East Meon, Edgegate, Evingar, Falemere, Fareham, Farringdon, Fawley, Fordingbridge, Hoddington, Holdshott, Hurstbourne, Kingsclere, Mansbridge, Meonstoke, Micheldever, Neatham, Odiham, Overton, Portsdown, Redbridge, Ringwood, Somborne, Titchfield, Waltham, Welford
In the 19th century, the hundreds were listed as:
Herefordshire
The hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the ten hundreds of the present day. Not included in the hundreds of Herefordshire at the time of Domesday, the sparsely populated Welch area of Archenfield included Ashe Ingen, Baysham and Kings Caple.Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
- Hurstingstone
- Leightonstone
- Norman Cross
- Toseland
Kent
From Kent Genealogy . Early Medieval Kent was traditionally divided into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds.The hundreds contained parishes and portions of parishes. In many regions of England as well as Kent, an entire parish would be within one hundred, yet especially along rivers and estuaries which had previously seen invasion, the Kentish hundreds were smaller in area and "shared" parishes to institutionalize resiliency and collective responsibility for defence and justice.
East Kent
Lathe of St. AugustineLathe of Scraye
Lathe of Scraye formed by mid-1200s from the half lathe of Milton and the Lathe of Wye and many additional hundreds.
Due to a judicial administrative reform in the mid-19th century, the some hundreds of the Lathe of Scray were moved from East Kent administration to West Kent administration:
Lathe of Shepway
The Lathe of Shepway also included the Cinque Port Liberty of New Romney in Romney Marsh, with the parish of Lydd as a limb of the Liberty.
West Kent
Sutton at HoneLathe of Aylesford
plus the Lowey of Tonbridge
Lathe of Scraye
In 1857 the provisions of the Act of 9 Geo. IV were invoked to re-examine the whole structure of Lathes and their divisions in providing for the administration of justice. The Lower Division of the Lathe of Scray, which formed the southernmost part of the Lathe, became part of West Kent, and consisted of the following Hundreds:
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire was originally divided into four wapentakes, but these were usually later described as hundreds. From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica after 1346 the six hundreds were:- [East Goscote (wapentake)|Goscote (hundred)|East Goscote]
- Framland
- Gartree
- Guthlaxton
- Sparkenhoe
- West Goscote
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire was divided into three Parts, each of which was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds.From map on Lincolnshire County Council website:
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- Elloe
- Kirton
- Skirbeck
- Aswardhurn
- Aveland
- Boothby Graffoe
- Beltisloe
- Flaxwell
- Langoe
- Loveden
- Ness
- Winnibriggs and Threo
;North Riding of Lindsey
- Bradley-Haverstoe
- Ludborough
- Walshcroft
- Yarborough
- Calceworth
- Candleshoe
- Gartree
- Hill
- Louth-Eske
- Wraggoe
- Aslacoe
- Corringham
- Epworth
- Manley
- Lawress
- Well
Middlesex
Northamptonshire
In 1086, there were 39 hundreds in the county: Alboldstow, Alwardsley, Barcheston, Beltisloe, Bloxham, Bumbelowe, Cleyley, Coleshill, Collingtree, Corby, Cuttlestone, Fawsley, Gravesend, Guilsborough, Hamfordshoe, Higham, Hunesberi, Huxloe, Kirtlington, Mawsley, Navisford, Navisland, Ness, Nobottle, Offlow, Orlingbury, Polebrook, Rothwell, Spelhoe, Stoke, Stotfold, Sutton, Towcester, Upton, Warden, Willybrook, Witchley, Wootton and Wymersley.From the Northamptonshire Family History Society the hundreds in the 1800s are:
The liberty and Soke of Peterborough was sometimes called Nassaburgh hundred.
Northumberland
Following the Harrying of the North and subsequent incursions from Scotland, the high sheriff of Northumberland was granted extraordinary powers. The county was subdivided into baronies, which were arranged in six wards and subdivided into constabularies. The wards were analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland- Bamburgh
- Castle
- Coquetdale
- Glendale
- Morpeth
- Tynedale
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From the Thoroton Society of NottinghamshireOxfordshire
From- Bampton
- Banbury
- Binfield
- Bloxham
- Bullingdon
- Chadlington
- Dorchester
- Ewelme
- Kirtlington – A hundred at the time of Domesday, it was combined to form the major portion of Ploughley hundred by 1169.
- Langtree
- Lewknor
- Pyrton – Pirton is a later Latinised spelling.
- Ploughley – Name first mentioned in the form Pokedelawa hundred in the Pipe Roll of 1169.
- Thame
- Wootton – Includes the three hundreds dependent on the royal manor of Wootton in 1086 and sometimes called the "three hundreds of Wootton" in the later 12th century: Shipton hundred, hundred and pre-1086 Wootten hundred. The hundred was later divided into two administrative regions:
- *Wootton – 19 parishes including Barford St. Michael, Deddington, Glympton, Heythrop, Rousham, Sandford St. Martin, South Newington, Stonesfield, Tackley, Wootton, the Astons, the Bartons, the Wortons, and the three Tews.
- *Wootton – 15 parishes and several extraparochial places
- *Within Wootton hundred yet separately administered were the areas of Oxford City & University, Oxford City and Oxford Liberty.
Rutland
- Alstoe
- East
- Martinsley
- Oakham
- Wrandike
Shropshire
From GENUKI† — including the Shropshire exclave of Halesowen
‡ The liberties of the borough of Shrewsbury and priory/borough of Wenlock were extensive and are usually considered as hundreds.
Somerset
From the ''''Staffordshire
From GENUKI- East Cuttlestone
- West Cuttlestone
- North Offlow
- South Offlow
- North Pirehill
- South Pirehill
- North Seisdon
- South Seisdon
- North Totmonslow
- South Totmonslow
Surrey
There are thirteen hundreds and a half-hundred:Sussex
Sussex was divided into rapes, and then hundreds.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. In 1834 it contained five hundreds sub-divided into fifty six parishes.- Avisford
- Bury
- Poling
- Rotherbridge
- West Easwrith
Bramber Rape
The Bramber Rape lies between the Rape of Arundel in the west and Lewes in the east. In 1834 it contained 40 parishes in the following hundreds:- Brightford
- Burbeach
- West Grinstead
- Poling
- Singlecross
- Steyning
- Tarring
- Tipnoak
- East Easwrith
- Fishersgate
- Wyndham
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. In 1834 it contained seven hundreds and seventy-four parishes.- Aldwick
- Bosham
- Box and Stockbridge
- Dumpford
- Easebourne
- Manhood
- Westbourne and Singleton
Hastings Rape
Medieval sources talk of a group of people who were separate to that of the South Saxons they were known as the Haestingas. The area of Sussex they occupied became the Rape of Hastings.It encompassed the easternmost part of Sussex, with the county of Kent to its east and the Rape of Pevensey to its west. The Anglo-Saxon hundred of Hailesaltede was later partitioned into Battle Hundred and Netherfield Hundred. In 1833, the Rape of Hastings had 13 hundreds giving a total of about 154,060 acres.
- Baldstrow
- Battle
- Bexhill
- Foxearle
- Goldspur
- Gostrow
- Guestling
- Hawkesborough
- Henhurst
- Netherfield
- Ninfield
- Shoyswell
- Staple
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.- Barcombe
- Buttinghill
- Dean
- Fishergate
- Holmestrow
- Poynings
- Preston
- Street
- Swanborough
- Whalesbourne
- Younsmere
Pevensey Rape
The Pevensey Rape lies between the Rapes of Lewes and Hastings. In 1833 it contained 19 hundreds and 52 parishes- Alciston
- Bishopstone
- Danehill Horsted
- Dill
- Eastbourne
- East Grinstead
- Flexborough
- Hartfield
- Lindfield Burley-Arches
- 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
Warwickshire was divided into four hundreds, with each hundred consisting of a number of divisions.- Barlinchway
- * Alcester
- * Henley
- * Snitterfield
- * Stratford
- Hemlingford, formerly named Coleshill
- * Atherstone
- * Birmingham
- * Solihull
- * Tamworth
- Kington
- * Brailes
- * Burton Dassett
- * Kington
- * Warwick
- Knightlow
- * Kenilworth
- * Kirby
- * Rugby
- * Southam
Westmorland
Westmorland was divided into four wards, analogous to hundreds. Pairs of wards made up the two Baronies. From Magna Britannica et HiberniaBarony of Kendal
The Barony of Kendal had two wards:- Kendal
- Lonsdale
Barony of Westmorland
The Barony of Westmorland had two wards:- East Ward
- West Ward
Wiltshire
There were 40 hundreds in Wiltshire at the time of the Domesday Survey.Hundreds in 1835 were:
Worcestershire
The ancient hundreds in 1086 at the time of the Domesday survey were:Ash, Came, Celfledetorn, Clent, Cresslow, Cutestornes, Doddingtree, Dudstone, Fernecumbe, Fishborough, Greston, Ossulstone, Oswaldslow, Pershore, Plegelgete, Seisdon, Tewkesbury, Tibblestone, Wolfhay.
Some of the parishes within these hundreds, such as Feckenham in Ash Hundred, or Gloucester in Dudstone Hundred, may have partially been in other counties or were transferred between counties in the intervening years.
Over the centuries, some of the hundreds were amalgamated and appear in many useful statistical records. The hundreds that continued their courts until disuse include:
- Blackenhurst
- Doddingtree
- Halfshire – combined the Domesday hundreds of Clent and Cresslow
- Oswaldslow – combined three ancient hundreds
- Pershore
Yorkshire
Yorkshire has three Ridings, East, North and West. Each of these was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds.The Ainsty wapentake, first associated with the West Riding, became associated in the fifteenth century with the City of York, outside the Riding system.
The hundreds of Amounderness and Lonsdale in Lancashire plus part of Westmorland were considered as part of Yorkshire in the Domesday Book.
East Riding
From GENUKIThe other division of the riding was Hullshire.
North Riding
- Allerton
- Birdforth – Formed from at least some parishes of the Domesday wapentake of Yarlestre.
- Bulmer
- Gilling East
- Gilling West
- Hallikeld
- Hang East
- Hang West
- Langbaurgh
- Pickering Lythe – Formed from the Domesday wapentake of Dic, and additionally by 1284–85 the parish of Sinnington and by the parish of Kirkby Misperton, both from the Domesday wapentake of Maneshou.
- Ryedale – First mentioned by name in 1165–66, probably when its court was relocated there. Formed from the Domesday wapentake of Maneshou minus Sinnington and Kirkby Misperton parishes, plus the additional parish of Lastingham from the Domesday wapentake of Dic. In the 19th century, Ryedale contained the parishes of Ampleforth; Appleton-Le-Street; Barton-Le-Street; Great Edston; Gilling; Helmsley; Hovingham; Kirkby Moorside; Kirkdale; Lastingham; New Malton, including the parishes of St. Leonard and St. Michael; Old Malton; Normanby; Nunnington; Oswaldkirk; Salton; Scawton; Slingsby; Stonegrave.
- Whitby Strand