List of Hundreds in Dorset - Hundreds

Hundreds

• Badbury Hundred:

Chalbury

Gussage St Michael

Hinton Martell

Hinton Parva

Horton

More Crichel

Shapwick

Tarrant Crawford

Wimborne Minster (a borough pre-Conquest)

(Holt and Pamphill were created in 1894 from Wimborne Minster, and Colehill in 1896 from Holt)

• Beaminster Forum & Redhone Hundred:

Beaminster

Bradpole

Chedington

Chardstock (transferred to Devon 1896)

Corscombe

Mapperton

Mosterton

Netherbury

North Poorton

South Perrott

Stoke Abbott

Toller Porcorum (part)

Wambrook (transferred to Somerset 1895)

• Bere Regis Hundred:

Bere Regis

Winterborne Kingston

(Milborne Stileham was created from Bere Regis and Winterborne Kingston in 1866)

• Brownshall Hundred:

Holwell (transferred from Somerset 1844)

Lydlinch

Stalbridge

Stock Gaylard (absorbed by Lydlinch 1884)

Stourton Caundle

• Buckland Newton Hundred:

Buckland Newton

Glanvilles Wootton

Mappowder

Pulham (part)

• Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury Hundred:

Cattistock

Cerne Abbas

Godmanstone

Hilfield

Hawkchurch (part) (transferred to Devon 1896)

Nether Cerne

West Compton

• Cogdean Hundred:

Canford Magna

Charlton Marshall

Corfe Mullen

Hamworthy

Lytchett Matravers

Lytchett Minster

Poole (part of Canford Magna; borough from 1248; County of Itself 1571)

Sturminster Marshall

(Kinson, Longfleet and Parkstone were created from Canford Magna 1866)

• Coombs Ditch Hundred:

Anderson

Blandford Forum (borough from 1605)

Blandford St Mary

Bloxworth

Winterborne Clenston

Winterborne Tomson

Winterborne Whitchurch

• Corfe Castle Hundred:

Corfe Castle (borough from 1268 or 1576)

• Cranborne Hundred:

Ashmore

Belchalwell (divided between Okeford Fitzpaine and Fifehead Neville 1884)

Cranborne (part)

East Woodyates (created 1858)

Edmondsham (part)

Farnham

Hampreston (part; entire from the 1860s, when the other part was transferred from Hampshire)

Pentridge

Shillingstone

Tarrant Gunville

Tarrant Rushton

Tollard Royal (divided between Dorset and Wiltshire until the 1880s, when the Dorset part was transferred to Wiltshire)

Turnworth

West Parley

Witchampton

(Alderholt and Verwood were created from Cranborne in 1894)

• Culliford Tree Hundred:

Broadwey

Buckland Ripers

Chickerell (part)

Melcombe Regis (part of Radipole; a borough from 1268)

Osmington

Radipole

Upwey (part)

West Knighton

West Stafford

Whitcombe

Winterborne Came (part)

Winterborne Herringston

Winterborne Monkton

• Eggerton or Eggardon Hundred:

Askerswell

Hooke

Long Bredy

Powerstock (part)

Winterbourne Abbas

Wraxall

• Godderthorne Hundred:

Allington

Shipton Gorge

Walditch

• Hasilor or Hasler Hundred:

Arne

Church Knowle

East Holme

Kimmeridge

Steeple

Tyneham

• Hundredsbarrow Hundred (formerly often Barrow Hundred)

Affpuddle

Turners Puddle

• Knowlton Hundred:

Gussage All Saints

Long Crichel

Woodlands

• Loosebarrow Hundred:

Almer

Morden

Spetisbury

• Pimperne Hundred:

Bryanston

Durweston

Fifehead Neville

Hammoon

Hazelbury Bryan

Iwerne Stepleton

Langton Long Blandford

Pimperne

Stourpaine

Tarrant Hinton

Tarrant Keyneston

Tarrant Launceston

Tarrant Rawston

Winterborne Houghton

Winterborne Stickland

• Puddletown Hundred:

Athelhampton

Burleston

Milborne St Andrew (part)

Puddletown

Tincleton

Tolpuddle

• Redlane or Redland Hundred:

Buckhorn Weston

Child Okeford

East Stour

Fifehead Magdalen

Hanford (from 1858)

Iwerne Courtney

Kington Magna

Manston

Silton

Sutton Waldron

Todber

West Stour

• Rowbarrow or Rowberrow Hundred:

Langton Matravers

Studland

Swanage

Worth Matravers

• Rushmore Hundred:

Winterborne Zelston

• St George's Hundred (later often George Hundred):

Bradford Peverell

Broadmayne

Charminster

Frome Whitfield (absorbed by Dorchester Holy Trinity in 1610)

Stinsford

Stratton

Winterborne St Martin

• Sherborne Hundred:

Beer Hackett

Bishops Caundle

Bradford Abbas

Castleton

Caundle Marsh

Folke

Haydon

Holnest

Leweston (from 1858)

Lillington

Longburton

Nether Compton

North Wootton

Oborne

Over Compton

Purse Caundle

Sherborne (a borough from 1227)

Thornford

Up Cerne

• Sixpenny Handley Hundred:

Cann

Compton Abbas

East Orchard

Fontmell Magna

Iwerne Minster

Melbury Abbas

Sixpenny Handley

West Orchard

• Sturminster Newton Hundred:

Hinton St Mary

Margaret Marsh

Marnhull

Okeford Fitzpaine

Sturminster Newton

• Tollerford Hundred:

Chilfrome

East Chelborough

Evershot

Frome St Quintin

Frome Vauchurch

Maiden Newton

Melbury Sampford

Rampisham

Toller Fratrum

Toller Porcorum (part)

West Chelborough

Wynford Eagle

• Uggescombe Hundred:

Abbotsbury

Chilcombe

Fleet

Hawkchurch (part)

Kingston Russell

Langton Herring

Littlebredy

Litton Cheney

Portesham

Puncknowle

Swyre

Weymouth (part of Wyke Regis; a borough from 1252)

Winterbourne Steepleton

• Up Wimborne or Monkton Up Wimborne Hundred

Chettle

Cranborne (part)

Tarrant Monkton

• Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred:

Burstock

Catherston Leweston

Charmouth

Chideock

Lyme Regis

Marshwood

Pilsdon

Stanton St Gabriel

Stockland (part) (transferred to Devon 1844)

Symondsbury

Thorncombe (transferred to Devon 1844 and back to Dorset 1896)

Whitchurch Canonicorum

Wootton Fitzpaine

• Whiteway Hundred:

Cheselbourne

Hilton

Ibberton

Melcombe Horsey

Milton Abbas

Stoke Wake

Woolland

• Wimborne St Giles Hundred:

Wimborne All Saints (absorbed by Wimborne St Giles 1732)]

Wimborne St Giles

West Woodyates (created 1858)

• Winfrith Hundred:

Coombe Keynes

East Lulworth

East Stoke

Moreton (part)

Owermoigne (later a separate liberty)

Poxwell

Warmwell

Watercombe (from 1858)

Winfrith Newburgh

Woodsford

• Yetminster Hundred:

Batcombe

Clifton Maybank

Melbury Bubb

Melbury Osmond

Yetminster

(Chetnole and Leigh were created from Yetminster in 1866)