Kington Hundred

Kington Hundred in Warwickshire

Kington Hundred is one of the hundreds of Warwickshire, in the south of the county. It is bounded to the south-east by Oxfordshire; to the south-west by Gloucestershire; to the north-west by Barlichway hundred; to the north-east by Knightlow hundred. There are also borders with Worcestershire to the south-west and Northamptonshire to the north-east. It is the least populous of the hundreds, with a population in 2011 of 76,008, rising to 83,306 if detached parts are disregarded.

It comprises the ancient parishes of:

• Atherstone upon Stour
• Avon Dassett
• Barcheston with Willington
• Barford
• Barton on the Heath
• Bishop's Tachbrook (part)^*
• Brailes
• Burmington
• Burton Dassett
• Butlers Marston
• Chadshunt
• Charlcote
• Cherington
• Chesterton
• Compton Wyniates
• Compton Verney (ex. par.)
• Cropredy (Mollington, part)^†
• Ettington
• Farnborough
• Fenny Compton
• Gaydon
• Great Wolford
• Halford
• Honington
• Idlicote
• Ilmington
• Kineton
• Lapworth
• Lighthorne
• Long Compton
• Lower Shuckburgh
• Morton Morrell
• Newbold Pacey
• Oxhill
• Packwood
• Pillerton Hersey
• Pillerton Priors
• Priors Hardwick
• Priors Marston
• Radway
• Ratley and Upton
• Shotteswell
• Stretton-on-Fosse
• Tanworth
• Tysoe with Westcote
• Warmington and Arlescote
• Wasperton
• Warwick St Mary & St Nicholas
• Wellesbourne Hastings with Wellesbourne Mountford
• Whatcott
• Whichford
• Whitchurch
• Wormleighton

^*: Tachbrook Mallory township in Knightlow hundred.
^†: Extends into Oxfordshire.

Additionally, the ancient parishes of Alderminster, Shipston on Stour, Tredington and Tidmington (Worcs.); and Little Compton and Sutton under Brailes (Glos.) are locally situated in Kington hundred.