Thedwastre (also Thedwestry) was a hundred of the county of Suffolk, England covering an area of . It formed part of the Liberty of Saint Edmund, under the jurisdiction of the abbots of Bury St Edmunds.
The hundred is about in length and wide. It is bounded on the west by the borough of Bury St Edmunds and Thingoe Hundred, on the north and east by Blackbourn and Stow Hundreds, and on the south by Cosford and Babergh Hundreds. It is a fertile district with undulating terrain, and watered by streams which rise within its limits and feed the rivers Thet, Gipping, Lark and Brett.
It is in the Deanery of Thedwestry, the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, the Diocese of Ely and Liberty of St Edmund. It contains no town of any size, but Bury and Ixworth are on its borders.
Listed as Theivardestreu in the Domesday Book of 1086, the name derives from "Theodward's tree", presumably a notable tree where the Hundred Court used to meet in Thurston.
Parishes
Thedwastre was made up of 24 parishes:F. A. Youngs Jr., Guide to the Administrative Units of England, Vol.1: Southern England, London, 1979
Parish Area (acres) Ampton 870 Beyton 626 Bradfield Combust 800 Bradfield St Clare 1428 Bradfield St George 2000 Drinkstone 2170 Felsham 1605 Fornham St Genevieve 700 Fornham St Martin 1200 Gedding 502 Great Barton 3500 Great Welnetham 1409 Hessett 1568 Little Welnetham 570 Livermere Magna 1580 Pakenham 3696 Rattlesden 3200 Rougham 3846 Rushbrooke 1066 Stanningfield 1431 Thurston 2400 Timworth 1220 Tostock 975 Woolpit 2000
References
See also
Thedwastre Rural District