Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds or wapentakes from the late Anglo-Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century.
Bedfordshire
Barford Biggleswade Clifton Flitt Manshead Redbornestoke Stodden Willey Wixamtree
Berkshire
The County of Berkshire comprised 20 hundreds and 193 parishes and parts of four others. From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868), Victoria County History Berkshire Vol 3 (1923) & Vol 4 (1924) +The Hundreds, parishes and boroughs of BerkshireHundredArea (acres)Parishes and boroughsBeynhurst13,000Bisham, Hurley, Remenham, Shottesbrook, White WalthamBray9,102Bray, Borough of MaidenheadCharlton12,940Barkham, Finchampstead, Hurst, Shinfield, SwallowfieldCompton18,190Aldworth, Catmore, Chilton, Compton, East Ilsley, Farnborough, West IlsleyCookham14,330Binfield, Cookham, SunninghillFaircross50,000Beedon, Boxford, Bright Walton, Brimpton, Chieveley, Frilsham, Hampstead Norris, Borough of Newbury, Peasemore, Sandleford, Shaw cum Donnington, Speen, Stanford Dingley, Wasing, Welford, YattendonFaringdon10,000Great Coxwell, Great Faringdon (part) Parishes of the hundred were transferred to Oxfordshire on 1 April 1974.Ganfield17,000Buckland, Hatford, Hinton Waldrist, Longworth, Pusey, Shellingford, Stanford in the ValeHormer21,550Borough of Abingdon, Bagley Wood, Besselsleigh, Cumnor, North Hinksey, Radley, St Helen (part), Seacourt, South Hinksey, Sunningwell, WythamKintbury Eagle42,560Formed in the 16th century by combining parishes of the hundred of Kintbury (Avington, Enborne, Hampstead Marshall, Hungerford, Inkpen, Kintbury, Shalbourne, West Woodhay) and parishes of the hundred of Eagle (Chaddleworth, East Challow, East Shefford, Fawley with Whatcombe, Letcombe Bassett, Letcombe Regis, West Challow, West Shefford). Parts of Hungerford and Shalbourne parishes were in the hundred of KinwardstoneOpen Domesday: Kinwardstone Hundred. Accessed 5 April 2023. in Wiltshire.Kinwardstone Hundred. British History Online. Accessed 5 Apr 2023. The Berkshire portions of Shalbourne were transferred to Wiltshire in 1895.Shalbourne. Berkshire Family History Society. Accessed 5 April 2023.Parish of Hungerford. Hungerford Virtual Museum. Accessed 5 April 2023.Lambourn19,400East Garston, LambournMoreton28,700Ashampstead, Aston Tirrold, Basildon, Brightwell, Didcot, East Hagbourne, Harwell, Moulsford, North Moreton, Sotwell, South Moreton, Streatley, Borough of Wallingford, West HagbourneOck28,250Appleton, Drayton, Fyfield, Kingston Bagpuize, Marcham, Milton, Steventon, Sutton Courtney, Tubney, Little Wittenham, Long WittenhamReading37,510Blewbury, Bucklebury, Cholsey, Pangbourne, Borough of Reading, Sulhampstead Abbots, Thatcham, TilehurstRipplesmere22,710Clewer, Easthampstead, Old Windsor, Winkfield, Borough of WindsorOpen Domesday: Ripplesmere hd.Shrivenham34,490Ashbury, Buscot, Coleshill, Compton Beauchamp, Eaton Hastings, Shrivenham, UffingtonSonning21,830Arborfield, Ruscombe, Sandhurst, Sonning, WokinghamTheale28,160Aldermaston, Bradfield, Burghfield, Englefield, Padworth, Purley, Stratfield Mortimer, Sulham, Sulhampstead Bannister, Tidmarsh, Ufton Nervet, WoolhamptonWantage28,160Ardington, Childrey, Denchworth, East Garston, East Hendred, East Lockinge, Sparsholt, West Hanney, West Hendred, West Lockinge, WantageWargrave11,220Waltham St. Laurence, Warfield, Wargrave
Buckinghamshire
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 eight larger hundreds, as follows:Genuki – History of Buckinghaham Hundreds Retrieved, 21 May 2009
Ashendon Hundred Aylesbury Hundred – consolidated from the 11th century Aylesbury, Risborough and Stone hundreds Buckingham Hundred Cottesloe Hundred Newport Hundred Chiltern Hundreds Burnham Hundred Desborough Hundred Stoke Hundred
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire was divided into 17 hundreds, plus the borough of Cambridge. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters. In 1929 the hundreds contained the following parishes.
Hundred Area(acres)ParishesArmingford 29,287Abington Pigotts, Bassingbourn, Croydon, East Hatley, Guilden Morden, Litlington, Melbourn, Meldreth, Royston (part), Shingay, Steeple Morden, Tadlow, Wendy, WhaddonChesterton15,847Chesterton, Childerley, Cottenham, Dry Drayton, HistonCheveley12,905Ashley, Cheveley, Kirtling, Newmarket All Saints, Wood DittonChilford22,364Babraham, Bartlow, Castle Camps, Great Abington, Hildersham, Horseheath, Linton, Little Abington, Pampisford, Shudy Camps, West WickhamEly42,667Downham, LittleportFlendish11,906Cherry Hinton, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, Horningsea, TevershamLongstow25,500Bourn, Caldecote, Caxton, Croxton, Eltisley, Gamlingay, Great Eversden, Hardwick, Hatley St. George, Kingston, Little Eversden, Little Gransden, Longstowe, ToftNorth Witchford86,275Chatteris, Doddington, March, WhittleseyNorthstow19,651Girton, Impington, Landbeach, Lolworth, Longstanton, Madingley, Milton, Oakington, Rampton, WaterbeachPapworth26,923Boxworth, Conington, Elsworth, Fen Drayton, Graveley, Knapwell, Over, Papworth St Agnes, Papworth Everard, Swavesey, WillinghamRadfield23,869Balsham, Brinkley, Burrough Green, Carlton-cum-Willingham, Dullingham, Stetchworth, West Wratting, Westley Waterless, Weston ColvilleSouth Witchford37,462Coveney, Grunty Fen, Haddenham, Manea, Mepal, Sutton, Stretham and Thetford, Welches Dam, Wentworth, Wilburton, Witcham, WitchfordStaine18,917Bottisham, Great Wilbraham, Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Stow-cum-QuyStaploe40,775Burwell, Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett, Landwade, Snailwell, Soham, WickenThriplow16,160Fowlmere, Foxton, Great Shelford, Harston, Hauxton, Little Shelford, Newton, Stapleford, Thriplow, TrumpingtonWetherley16,160Arrington, Barrington, Barton, Comberton, Coton, Grantchester, Harlton, Haslingfield, Orwell, Shepreth, WimpoleWhittlesford11,078Duxford, Hinxton, Ickleton, Sawston, WhittlesfordWisbech61,157Elm, Leverington, Newton, Outwell, Parson Drove, Thorney, Tydd St. Giles, Upwell, Wisbech, Wisbech St. Mary
Cheshire
From Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T. (1987). The Victoria History of the County of Chester. (Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday). Oxford: Oxford University Press. .
Broxton Bucklow Eddisbury Macclesfield Nantwich Northwich Wirral
Cornwall
In Cornwall, the name calqued cantrev
From GENUKI Genuki: Cornwall, Cornwall
Penwith (Penwyth) Kerrier (Keryer) Pydar (Pedera) Powder (Pow Ereder) Trigg (Trigor) Lesnewth (Lysnowyth) Stratton (Stradneth) West (Fawy) East (Ryslegh)
For some purposes, the Isles of Scilly were counted as a tenth hundred.
Cumberland
Cumberland was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds.From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland Genuki: CUMBERLAND, England – History and Description, 1868, Cumberland
Allerdale-above-Derwent Allerdale-below-Derwent Cumberland Eskdale Leath
Derbyshire
The civil divisions of Derbyshire were anciently called wapentakes. In the Domesday Survey of 1086 are mentioned the wapentakes of Scarvedale, Hamestan, Morlestan, Walecross, and Apultre, and a district called Peche-fers. Divided into hundreds by 1273.:From GENUKI Genuki: DERBYSHIRE, England – History and Description, 1868, Derbyshire (based on the 1868 Gazette)
High Peak—Hamestan wapentake and perhaps Peche-fers district in 1086; Peck wapentake by 1273. Wirksworth—Called a wapentake as late as 1817. Scarsdale Morleston and Litchurch—Called in the Domesday Survey of 1086, Morlestan or Morleystone wapentake and Littlechurch wapentake,Domesday Map Online: Litchurch and in the Hundred-Roll of 1273, Littlechirch; by 1300 combined as the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch.Craven, Maxwell: Derby Street by Street (Breedon Books, Derby, 2005) Appletree Repton and Gresley—In 1274 formed the separate wapentakes of Repindon and Greselegh (owned by the King and the heirs of the Earl of Chester respectively); in 1086 the large Walecross wapentake.
Devon
In 1850 there were thirty-two hundreds in Devon according to White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire
Dorset
There was also Loders and Bothenhampton Liberty
County Durham County Durham was divided into wards, analogous to hundreds. From an 1840 map of County Durham Genuki: Co Durham in 1840, Durham.
Chester Darlington Durham City Easington Stockton
Essex
According to essex1841.com Hundreds in the Essex 1841 census the 1841 census also recorded Harwich hundred, which the Victoria County History places within Tendring.
Gloucestershire
The thirty-nine hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the thirty-one hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the twenty-eight hundreds of the present day. From the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland Genuki: Miscellaneous Places, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Barton Regis
The Duchy of Lancaster (Gloucestershire) liberty was sometimes counted as a hundred.
Hampshire The Domesday Survey mentions 44 hundreds in Hampshire,Open Domesday: Hampshire. Accessed 22 November 2020. recorded as HanteScire and abbreviated as Hante.Open Domesday: Hampshire folio 9. Accessed 22 November 2020. By the 14th century the number had been reduced to 37. The hundreds of East Medina and West Medina in the Isle of Wight are mentioned in 1316. The Isle of Wight obtained a county council of its own in 1890 and became a full ceremonial county in 1974.
Hampshire has in the past been named Southamptonshire and is so recorded in the Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653. The name of the administrative county was changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire' on 1 April 1959. The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants.
The 44 Domesday-era hundreds were: Amesbury, Andover, Ashley, Barton, Basingstoke, Bermondspit, Bosbarrow, Bosham, Bountisborough, Bowcombe, Brightford, Broughton, Buddlesgate, Calbourne, Chalton, Charldon, Chuteley, Crondall, Droxford, East Meon, Edgegate, Evingar, Falemere, Fareham, Farringdon, Fawley, Fordingbridge, Hoddington, Holdshott, Hurstbourne, Kingsclere, Mansbridge, Meonstoke, Micheldever, Neatham, Odiham, Overton, Portsdown, Redbridge, Ringwood, Somborne, Titchfield, Waltham, Welford
In the 19th century, the hundreds were listed as:
Herefordshire The hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the ten hundreds of the present day. Not included in the hundreds of Herefordshire at the time of Domesday, the sparsely populated Welch area of Archenfield included Ashe Ingen, Baysham and Kings Caple. History: the Hundreds.
From Domesday (1086) Bromsash Castlery Cutestornes Dinedor Ewias Greitrewes Hazeltree – Hezetre Plegelgete Radlow Sellack Stradel TornelausFrom The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868)Genuki: Miscellaneous Places, Herefordshire, Herefordshire BroxashBroxash hundred, An Accurate Map of Hereford Shire Divided into its Hundreds, Emanuel Bowen (1755) Ewyas-LacyEwyas-Lacy hundred, An Accurate Map of Hereford Shire Divided into its Hundreds, Emanuel Bowen (1755) GreytreeGreytree hundred, An Accurate Map of Hereford Shire Divided into its Hundreds, Emanuel Bowen (1755) GrimsworthGrimsworth hundred, An Accurate Map of Hereford Shire Divided into its Hundreds, Emanuel Bowen (1755) HuntingtonHuntington hundred, An Accurate Map of Hereford Shire Divided into its Hundreds, Emanuel Bowen (1755) RadlowRadlow hundred, An Accurate Map of Hereford Shire Divided into its Hundreds, Emanuel Bowen (1755)