Cottesloe Hundred

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Cottesloe Hundred
Cottesloe
Area
 • 1851 70,922 acres (287.01 km2)[1]
Population
 • 1861 20,681[2]
History
 • Created 11th century
 • Abolished 1880s
Status Hundred
 • HQ Edlesborough
Subdivisions
 • Type Parishes

Cottesloe Hundred was a hundred in the county of Buckinghamshire, England. It extended from close to the north of the county and Northamptonshire south-east to the Hertfordshire boundary at Berkhampsted.

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 so that by the end of the 14th century the original or ancient hundreds had been consolidated into 8 larger hundreds.[3] Cottesloe became the name of the hundred formed from bringing together the three hundreds of Cottesloe, Mursley and Yardley under a bailiff as early as 1255. These original hundred names still persisted in official records until at least the early part of the 17th century. The court leet for Cottesloe hundred was usually held twice a year at Edlesborough.[4]

Parishes and hamlets

Cotteslow hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, (formerly medieval vills), allocated to their respective 11th century hundred:[5]

Cottesloe Mursley Yardley
Aston Abbots Drayton Parslow Cheddington
Creslow Dunton Cholesbury
Cublington Hoggeston Drayton Beauchamp
Grove Great Horwood (with Singleborough) Edlesborough (with Dagnall, Hadnall and Northall)
Hardwick (with Weedon) Little Horwood Hawridge
Linslade Mursley (with Salden) Ivinghoe (with Ivinghoe Aston, Horton, Seabrook and St Margarets)
Mentmore (with Ledburn) Soulbury Marsworth
Whitchurch Stewkley Pitstone (with Nettleden and Friesden)
Wing Swanbourne Slapton
Wingrave (with Rowsham) Shenley (part of)  
  Tattenhoe  
  Whaddon (with Nash)  
  Winslow  

See also

References

  1. Vision of Britain - Cottesloe Area Retrieved May 21, 2009
  2. Vision of Britain - Cottesloe Population Retrieved May 21, 2009
  3. Genuki - History of Buckinghaham Hundreds Retrieved, May 21 2009
  4. [O.S. Anderson, The English Hundred-Names: The South-Eastern Counties, Lunds Universitets Arsskrift, 37.1, Hakan Ohlsson, Lund (1939)]
  5. History on Line - Victoria County History A History of the County of Buckingham - Cottesloe Hundred: Volume 3 (1925), pp. 326-327. Retrieved, May 21 2009