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 and around 1316 the original or ancient hundreds had been consolidated into 8 larger hundreds. 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.Genuki - History of Buckingham Hundreds Retrieved, May 21, 2009
Stodfald Hundred's name came from Old English stōdfald 'enclosure for a stud of horses', named after a field in Lamport where the hundred court met.
Rovelai Hundred was named after Old English Ruh hlaw, 'uncultivated hill', lately Rowley Hills, in Lenborough, where the hundred court met.
Lamva Hundred was named after Old English muga, 'a heap' e.g. of hay, with the Norman French 'La' later prefixed, an artificial mound used to mark the meeting place of the hundred court, traditionally reported to be Park Meadow in Steeple Claydon.
Parishes and hamlets Buckingham hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, (formerly medieval vills), allocated to their respective 11th century hundred: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
LamuaRovelaiStodfald AddingtonBarton HartshornAkeley AdstockBeachamptonBiddlesden with Evershaw EdgcottHistory & Antiquities describes Edgcott as being within Rovelai hundred ‡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