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. in some areas, equivalent districts were known as "wapentakes".
In Wales a similar Celtic system of division called cantrefi had existed for centuries and was of particular importance in the administration of the Welsh law. Following the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, Wales was divided into hundreds to be consistent with England.

Bedfordshire

The County of Berkshire comprised 20 Hundreds and 193 parishes and parts of four others. From , Victoria County History Berkshire Vol 3 & Vol 4
HundredArea Parishes and Boroughs
Beynhurst13,000Bisham, Hurley, Remenham, Shottesbrook, White Waltham
Bray9,102Bray, Borough of Maidenhead
Charlton12,940Barkham, Finchampstead, Hurst, Shinfield, Swallowfield
Compton18,190Aldworth, Catmore, Chilton, Compton, East Ilsley, Farnborough, West Ilsley
Cookham14,330Binfield, Cookham, Sunninghill
Faircross50,000Beedon, Boxford, Bright Walton, Brimpton, Chieveley, Frilsham, Hampstead Norris, Borough of Newbury, Peasemore, Sandleford, Shaw cum Donnington, Speen, Stanford Dingley, Wasing, Welford, Yattendon
FaringdonList of hundreds of England and Wales#cite note-2|10,000Great Coxwell, Great Faringdon Parishes of the hundred were transferred to Oxfordshire on 1 April 1974.
Ganfield17,000Buckland, Hatford, Hinton Waldrist, Longworth, Pusey, Shillingford, Stanford in the Vale
Hormer21,550Borough of Abingdon, Bagley Wood, Besselsleigh, Cumnor, North Hinksey, Radley, St Helen, Seacourt, South Hinksey, Sunningwell, Wytham
Kintbury Eagle42,560Avington, Chaddleworth, East Challow, East Shefford, Enborne, Fawley with Whatcombe, Hampstead Marshall, Hungerford, Inkpen, Kintbury, Letcombe Bassett, Letcombe Regis, Shalbourne, West Challow, West Shefford, West Woodhay
Lambourn19,400East Garston, Lambourn
Moreton28,700Ashampstead, Aston Tirrold, Basildon, Brightwell, Didcot, East Hagbourne, Harwell, Moulsford, North Moreton, Sotwell, South Moreton, Streatley, Borough of Wallingford, West Hagbourne
Ock28,250Appleton, Drayton, Fyfield, Kingston Bagpuize, Marcham, Milton, Steventon, Sutton Courtney, Tubney, Little Wittenham, Long Wittenham
Reading37,510Blewbury, Bucklebury, Cholsey, Pangbourne, Borough of Reading, Sulhampstead Abbots, Thatcham, Tilehurst
Ripplesmere22,710Clewer, Easthampstead, Old Windsor, Winkfield, Borough of Windsor
Shrivenham34,490Ashbury, Buscot, Coleshill, Compton Beauchamp, Eaton Hastings, Shrivenham, Uffington
Sonning21,830Arborfield, Ruscombe, Sandhurst, Sonning, Wokingham
Theale28,160Aldermaston, Bradfield, Burghfield, Englefield, Padworth, Purley, Stratfield Mortimer, Sulham, Sulhampstead Bannister, Tidmarsh, Ufton Nervet, Woolhampton
Wantage28,160Ardington, Childrey, Denchworth, East Garston, East Hendred, East Lockinge, Sparsholt, West Hanney, West Hendred, West Lockinge, Wantage
Wargrave11,220Waltham St. Laurence, Warfield, Wargrave

Buckinghamshire

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.
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.
HundredArea Parishes
Armingford29287Abington Pigotts, Bassingbourn, Croydon, East Hatley, Guilden Morden, Litlington, Melbourn, Meldreth, Royston, Shingay, Steeple Morden, Tadlow, Wendy, Whaddon
Chesterton15847Chesterton, Childerley, Cottenham, Dry Drayton, Histon
Cheveley12905Ashley, Cheveley, Kirtling, Newmarket All Saints, Wood Ditton
Chilford22364Babraham, Bartlow, Castle Camps, Great Abington, Hildersham, Horseheath, Linton, Little Abington, Pampisford, Shudy Camps, West Wickham
Ely42667Downham, Littleport
Flendish11906Cherry Hinton, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, Horningsea, Teversham
Longstow25500Bourn, Caldecote, Caxton, Croxton, Eltisley, Gamlingay, Great Eversden, Hardwick, Hatley St. George, Kingston, Little Eversden, Little Gransden, Longstowe, Toft
North Witchford86275Chatteris, Doddington, March, Whittlesey
Northstow19651Girton, Impington, Landbeach, Lolworth, Longstanton, Madingley, Milton, Oakington, Rampton, Waterbeach
Papworth26923Boxworth, Conington, Elsworth, Fen Drayton, Graveley, Knapwell, Over, Papworth St Agnes, Papworth Everard, Swavesey, Willingham
Radfield23869Balsham, Brinkley, Burrough Green, Carlton-cum-Willingham, Dullingham, Stetchworth, West Wratting, Westley Waterless, Weston Colville
South Witchford37462Coveney, Grunty Fen, Haddenham, Manea, Mepal, Sutton, Stretham and Thetford, Welches Dam, Wentworth, Wilburton, Witcham, Witchford
Staine18917Bottisham, Great Wilbraham, Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Stow-cum-Quy
Staploe40775Burwell, Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett, Landwade, Snailwell, Soham, Wicken
Thriplow16160Fowlmere, Foxton, Great Shelford, Harston, Hauxton, Little Shelford, Newton, Stapleford, Thriplow, Trumpington
Wetherley16160Arrington, Barrington, Barton, Comberton, Coton, Grantchester, Harlton, Haslingfield, Orwell, Shepreth, Wimpole
Whittlesford11078Duxford, Hinxton, Ickleton, Sawston, Whittlesford
Wisbech61157Elm, Leverington, Newton, Outwell, Parson Drove, Thorney, Tydd St. Giles, Upwell, Wisbech, Wisbech St. Mary

Cheshire

From Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T.. The Victoria History of the County of Chester.. Oxford: Oxford University Press..
In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrev
From GENUKI
For some purposes, the Isles of Scilly were counted as a tenth hundred.

Cumberland

was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland
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. From GENUKI :
In 1850 there were thirty-two hundreds in Devon according to White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire

Dorset

County Durham

County Durham was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From an 1840 map of County Durham .
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 liberty was sometimes counted as a hundred.

Hampshire

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.
From Domesday :
From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland
From Kent Genealogy . Kent was traditionally divided into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds.

East Kent

Lathes: St. Augustine, Scraye, Shepway
plus Romney Marsh Liberty

West Kent

Lathe of Sutton at Hone
Lathe of Aylesford
plus the Lowey of Tonbridge
Lathe of Scraye

Lancashire

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:
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

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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Northamptonshire

In 1086, there were 29 hundreds in the county. By the time of the 'Nomina Villarum' a survey carried out in the first half of the 12th Century, the Stoke Hundred had been absorbed into the Corby Hundred.
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
Nottinghamshire was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. From the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire
From
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

Surrey

There are thirteen hundreds and one 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.
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:
as well as 3 half hundreds
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Pevensey Rape lies between the Rapes of Lewes and Hastings. In 1833 it contained 19 hundreds and 52 parishes
Warwickshire was divided into four hundreds, with each hundred consisting of a number of divisions.
Westmorland was divided into four wards, analogous to hundreds. Pairs of wards made up the two Baronies. From Magna Britannica et Hibernia

Barony of Kendal

The Barony of Kendal had two wards:
The Barony of Westmorland had two wards:
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:
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 of Yorkshire

From GENUKI
The other division of the riding was Hullshire.

North Riding of Yorkshire

From GENUKI
Wales was divided into hundreds following the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. This resulted in the creation of five new counties from the Marches of Wales. Combined with the transformation of the Lordships of Pembroke and Glamorgan into new counties, with the existing counties of Cardiganshire, Caernarfonshire and Flintshire this gave Wales thirteen counties.

Anglesey

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