Spelthorne was a hundred (dated subdivision) of the historic county of Middlesex, England. It contained these parishes and settlements: Ashford East Bedfont The hamlet of Hatton Feltham Hampton The settlement of Hampton Hill developed in the 19th century Hampton Wick Hanworth Laleham Littleton since the 1970s contiguous with Shepperton The chapelry of Astleham/Aslam. In the 1930s replaced with the Queen Mary Reservoir. Shepperton Staines Stanwell The hamlet of Stanwell Moor, since the 20th century a village without a church Sunbury The hamlet of Upper Halliford, today a village, joined postally with Shepperton The hamlet of Charlton, joined postally with Shepperton Teddington Part of the neighbourhood of Fulwell, once a single-ownership estate, by consensus spreading south to around to its railway station
The present-day district of Spelthorne in Surrey amounts to about 59% of the hundred.13733 of 23386 acres in terms of the traditional areas (parishes); the bulk successor has negligibly diverged on its external boundaries since 1901. The eastern parts since 1965 form parts of the London boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames.
Demography A decennial table for each parish is published in the Victoria County History series. By 1891 the Hundred was legally moribund, having already been de facto moribund. The population of the north-eastern six parishes has been greater than the south-west seven since an unknowable point in time between the 1831 and 1841 censuses. A summary is: Area nameAcreage1801 population1821 population1841 population1861 population1881 population1901 populationSeven parishes becoming in 1965 part of Surrey13,73356046720791591521452020888Six parishes becoming in 1965 part of London9,653462466978672102881894032280Total (Spelthorne Hundred)23,386102881341716587194403346053168
Relative to the county as a whole, the hundred (one of six) had 12.9% of its 181,320 acres. In 1801 it had 1.3% of the 818,129 people recorded as living in Middlesex; in 1901 it had 1.6% of the 3,585,323 people stated in the census to be living in the county (including in the County of London parts which once lay in Middlesex).
See also TW postcode area, the centre-west bulk of which corresponds with Spelthorne Hundred. It adds Richmond, Brentford, Isleworth Hundred (or half-hundred) and Egham Spelthorne (UK Parliament constituency), a seat of the House of Commons since 1918 which was initially larger and is since 1945 smaller than the Hundred.
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