Hundred of Berkeley
The hundred of Berkeley was one of the ancient hundreds of Gloucestershire, England. Hundreds originated in the late Saxon period as a subdivision of a county and lasted as administrative divisions until the 19th century.[1]
Berkeley Hundred was divided into two separate parts, the Lower Division and the Upper Division.
The Lower Division consisted of several detached parts, including the ancient parishes of
- Elberton
- Filton
- Hill
- Horfield
- Almondsbury (part)
- Henbury (part)
The Upper Division consisted of the parishes of
- Arlingham (a detached part of the hundred, separated from the rest of the hundred by the hundred of Whitstone)
- Ashleworth
- Berkeley
- Beverston
- Cam
- Coaley
- Cromhall Abbotts
- Dursley
- Kingscote
- Newington Bagpath
- North Nibley
- Nympsfield
- Owlpen
- Ozleworth
- Slimbridge
- Stinchcombe
- Uley
- Wotton-under-Edge
- Rockhampton (part)
The meeting place was at Berkeley.
References
- ^ Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice (1906). English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: the parish and the county. London: Longmans Green and Company. pp. 284–285.
- National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
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- Bisley
- Bledisloe
- Botloe
- Bradley
- Brightwell's Barrow
- Cheltenham
- Cleeve
- Crowthorne-with-Minety
- Deerhurst
- Dudstone
- Grumbalds Ash
- Henbury
- Kiftsgate
- Langley and Swinehead
- Longtree
- Pucklechurch
- Rapsgate
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- Slaughter
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- Thornbury
- Tibaldstone
- Westbury
- Westminster
- Whitstone
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