West Barnfield Hundred

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West Barnfield Hundred, shown within the Lathe of Aylesford and Kent

West Barnfield or Little Barnfield is a hundred of Kent that forms part of the Lathe of Aylesford.

The hundred consists solely of the southern portion of the ancient parish of Goudhurst*. In this part of Kent the hundreds are very small, and frequently their bounds incorporate only parts of parishes. This is especially true of West Barnfield, which only incorporates a part of a single parish, and its neighbour East Barnfield, which similarly only includes part of Hawkhurst.

*: Goudhurst extends into Cranbrook and Marden hundreds.

Greenwood's county history of Kent had only this to say about the hundred:[1]

“ Is hardly more than a nominal hundred, including only the south-east part of the Parish of Goudhurst, but having neither the village nor church within its bounds. ”

It is the least populous of Kent's hundreds, with a population of just 589.

References

  1. ↑ Christopher Greenwood (1838). "An Epitome of County History: County of Kent". https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hkwad52cFUMC&pg=PA168. 

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Hundreds of Kent

Lathe of Saint Augustine: Bewsborough • Bleangate • Bridge and Petham • Cornilo • Downhamford • Eastry • Kinghamford • Preston • Ringslow • Westgate • Whitstable • Wingham • Lathe of Shepway: Aloesbridge • Bircholt Barony • Bircholt Franchise • Folkestone • Ham • Heane • Hythe • Longport • Loningborough • Newchurch • Oxney • St Martin's Longport • Stowting • Street • Worth • Lathe of Scray: Barkley • Blackborne • Boughton • Calehill • Chart and Longbridge • Cranbrook • Faversham • Felborough • Great Barnfield • Marden • Milton • Rolvenden • Selbrittenden • Sheppey • Tenterden • Teynham • Wye • Lathe of Aylesford: Brenchley and Horsmonden • Chatham and Gillingham • Eyhorne • Hoo • Larkfield and Aylesford • Littlefield • Maidstone • Shamwell • Toltingtrough • Tunbridge Lowey • Twyford • Washlingstone • West Barnfield • Wrotham • Lathe of Sutton at Hone: Axtane • Dartford and Wilmington • Blackheath • Bromley and Beckenham • Codsheath • Little and Lessnes • Ruxley • Somerden • Westerham and Edenbridge

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