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|[[Thurstable Hundred|Thurstable]]||24776||[[Goldhanger]], [[Heybridge, Maldon|Heybridge]], [[Langford, Essex|Langford]], [[Tollesbury]], [[Tolleshunt D'Arcy]], [[Tolleshunt Knights]], [[Tolleshunt Major]], [[Great Totham]], [[Little Totham]], [[Wickham Bishops]] | |[[Thurstable Hundred|Thurstable]]||24776||[[Goldhanger]], [[Heybridge, Maldon|Heybridge]], [[Langford, Essex|Langford]], [[Tollesbury]], [[Tolleshunt D'Arcy]], [[Tolleshunt Knights]], [[Tolleshunt Major]], [[Great Totham]], [[Little Totham]], [[Wickham Bishops]] | ||
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|[[Uttlesford Hundred|Uttlesford]]||48781||[[Arkesden]], [[Birchanger]], [[Great Chesterford]], [[Little Chesterford]], [[Great Chishill]], [[Little Chishill]], [[Chrishall]], [[ | |[[Uttlesford Hundred|Uttlesford]]||48781||[[Arkesden]], [[Birchanger]], [[Great Chesterford]], [[Little Chesterford]], [[Great Chishill]], [[Little Chishill]], [[Chrishall]], [[Debden]], [[Elmdon]], [[Elsenham]], [[Heydon, Essex|Heydon]], [[Henham]], [[Littlebury]], [[Newport, Essex|Newport]], [[Quendon]], [[Rickling]], [[Stansted Mountfitchet]], [[Strethall]], [[Takeley]], Wenden Lofts, [[Wendens Ambo]], [[Wicken Bonhunt]], [[Widdington]], [[Wimbish]] | ||
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|[[Waltham Hundred|Waltham]]||23098||[[Chingford]], [[Epping]], [[Nazeing]], [[Waltham Abbey, Essex|Waltham Abbey]] | |[[Waltham Hundred|Waltham]]||23098||[[Chingford]], [[Epping]], [[Nazeing]], [[Waltham Abbey, Essex|Waltham Abbey]] |
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Essex is divided into 19 hundreds, and in addition are the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower (within the Beacontree Hundred) and the ancient boroughs of Colchester, Harwich, and Maldon. In former days each hundred had a hundred moot which met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters, though the moot's functions withered in the Middle Ages.
The Domesday Book of 1086 lists nineteen hundreds, corresponding very closely in extent and in name with those of today. The additional half-hundred of Thunreslan on the border with Suffolk border is no longer known, and the hundred of Witbrictesherna was renamed Dengie.
The Royal Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower was formed from land taken from Becontree Hundred.[1]
Parishes
The ancient parishes in each hundred are:[2]
References
- ↑ "The hundred of Becontree: Introduction". A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5. 1966. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42721.
- ↑ A History of the County of Essex
- ↑ John Bartholomew (1887). Gazetteer of the British Isles.