Codsheath
Codsheath is a hundred in Kent, occupying the eastern part of the Lathe of Sutton at Hone.[1] Codsheath was also recorded as "Codsede" in ancient records.[2] The Hundred of Codsheath was included in the Domesday Book of 1086, that records it as having 203 houses, 44 in Sundridge and 159 in Otford.[3] The hundred borders six others, four in the Sutton-at-Hone Lathe, and two of the Lathe of Aylesford to the east. Hundreds that border Codsheath are Somerden to the south; Westerham and Edenbridge to the west; the Hundred of Ruxley to the north-west; Axstane Hundred to the north-east, all within the lath of Sutton-at-Hone; and the Aylesford hundreds of Wrotham to the east, and Lowy of Tunbridge to the south-east.[1]
The hundred comprises the ancient parishes of:
*: Detached part in Somerden hundred. Main part mapped as a hundred in its own right by Ordnance Survey.
†: Partly in Somerden and Washlingstone hundreds.
‡: Mostly in Washlingstone hundred.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 An Historical Atlas of Kent, edited by Terence Lawrence & David Killingray (2004) ISBN 1-86077-255-2 - Maps front cover and back cover inlay
- ↑ "The hundred of Codsheath: Introduction", in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 by Edward Hasted (Canterbury, 1797), pp. 1-2. posted at British History Online
- ↑ Hundred of Codsheath, in The Domesday Book (1086). posted at Opendomesday.org