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Badbury Hundred shown within Dorset

Badbury Hundred is a hundred in Dorset, situated in the east of the county, adjacent to the border with Hampshire. It is bounded by Hampshire to the west; by Cranborne and Knowlton Hundreds to the north; by Upwimborne and Pimperne Hundreds to the west; and by Cogdean and Loosebarrow hundreds to the south. It had a population of 25,068 in 2011.

It is named after the earthwork of Badbury Rings.

Badbury Hundred contains the following ancient parishes:


Hundreds of Dorset

Badbury • Barrow • Beaminster and Redhone (including Bridport) • Bere Regis • Brownshall • Buckland and Sturminster Newton Castle • Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury • Cogdean (including Poole) • Coomb's Ditch • Corfe Castle • Cranborne • Culliford Tree • Eggerton • George • Gillingham Liberty • Godderthorne • Hasilor • Knowlton • Loosebarrow • Pimperne (including Blandford Forum) • Puddletown (including Weymouth) • Redlane • Rowbarrow • Rushmoor • Sherborne • Sixpenny Handley (including Shaftesbury) • Tollerford • Uggscombe (including Dorchester) • Upwimborne • Whitchurch Canonicorum (including Lyme Regis) • Whiteway • Winfrith (including Wareham) • Yetminster