Caldicot Hundred

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Caldicot
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Caldicot within Monmouthshire
Area
 • 1831 52,550 acres (212.7 km2)
History
 • Created 1542
Status hundred
Subdivisions
 • Type Divisions
 • Units Higher and Lower

Caldicot was an ancient hundred of Monmouthshire, Wales.

It was situated in the south-eastern part of the county, bounded on the north by the hundreds of Usk and Raglan; on the east by Gloucestershire; on the south by the Bristol Channel, and on the west by the hundred of Wentloog.

It contained the following ancient parishes:[1]

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The area is now administered by the local authorities of Newport and Monmouthshire.

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References

  1. Joseph Bradney, A History of Monmouthshire: Vol.IV, The Hundred of Caldicot, 1929 (reprinted 1994), ISBN 0 9520009 4 6