Buckingham Hundred

Coordinates: 51°59′44″N 0°59′12″W / 51.9956°N 0.9868°W

Buckingham Hundred
Area
• 1887	52,251 acres (211.45 km^2)[1]
Population
• 1887	9,455[2]
History
• Created	11th century
• Abolished	1880s
Status	Hundred
• HQ	Various
Subdivisions
• Type	Parishes

Buckingham Hundred was a hundred in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It was situated in the north west of the county and forming the boundary with the counties of Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. There was also a small detached portion of the hundred embedded in Oxfordshire close to Bicester.

History

Until at least the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire. It has been suggested however that neighbouring hundreds had already become more closely associated in the 11th century so that by the end of the 14th century the original or ancient hundreds had been consolidated into 8 larger hundreds.^[3] Buckingham became the name of the hundred formed from the combined 11th century hundreds of Lamva, Rovelai and Stodfald although these original names still persisted in official records until at least the early part of the 17th century. The court leet for Buckingham hundred was every three weeks at various localities across the hundred.

Parishes and hamlets

Buckingham hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, (formerly medieval vills), allocated to their respective 11th century hundred:^[4]

   

Lamua	Rovelai	Stodfald
Addington	Barton Hartshorn	Akeley
Adstock	Beachampton	Biddlesden with Evershaw
Edgcott	‡Bourton	Foscott
Marsh Gibbon	‡Buckingham	Leckhampstead
Padbury	*Caversfield	Lillingstone Dayrell
Steeple Claydon	Chetwode	Lillingstone Lovell
Thornborough	‡Gawcott	Luffield Abbey
Twyford (with Charndon and Poundon)	Hillesden	Maids Moreton
	‡Lenborough	Radclive
	Preston Bissett	Shalstone
	Tingewick	Stowe (with Dadford and Lamport)
	†Thornton	Turweston
		Water Stratford
		Westbury

† Thornton was later transferred to the hundred of Lamua.

* Caversfield was a detached parish located within Oxfordshire and was transferred to that county in the 19th century

‡ Buckingham was part of Rovelai hundred for administrative purposes even though by the 11th century it had become a substantial settlement and the town and was granted Borough status in the 16th century. Bourton, Gawcott and Lenborough were part of the parish of Buckingham.

See also

• List of hundreds of England and Wales

References

1. Vision of Britain - Buckingham Area Retrieved, May 22, 2009
2. Vision of Britain - Buckingham Population Retrieved, May 22, 2009
3. Genuki - History of Buckinghaham Hundreds Archived August 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved, May 21, 2009
4. History on Line - Victoria County History - A History of the County of Buckingham - Buckingham Hundred: Volume 4, (1927), pp. 135-136. Retrieved, May 22, 2009