Effingham Hundred or the Hundred of Effingham was a

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but often treated as a half-hundred with that of Copthorne (to the east and north-east) and was the smallest in Surrey, England.

Geography

It comprised the parishes of: * Effingham. *

Great Bookham Great Bookham is a village in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of ''Bocham'' ...

* Little Bookham.

History

From a date before the

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until its end it was connected with

Copthorne Hundred Copthorne was a hundred of Surrey, England, an area above the level of the parishes and manors, where the local wise, wealthy and powerful met periodically in Anglo-Saxon England for strategic purposes. After the Norman Conquest the lords of th ...

, and so was sometimes styled and treated as the Half-hundred of Effingham. It contained the smallest amount of land in Surrey, at 47 to 50 hides. In the

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of 1086, Effingham Hundred included the above and two unknown settlements of ''Driteham'' and ''Pechingeorde''. It was a royal hundred, and in a document of the reign of Edward I is stated to have been farmed by all its various owners altogether formerly for half a mark per annum, but then for 10

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. In minor civil dispute settlement, in 1628 the borough of Kingston received a grant of jurisdiction within the "hundred of Copthorne and Effingham" in compensation for their loss of the privilege of court leet in Richmond and Petersham and this grant was confirmed by Charles I to in 1638, and as the last vestige of the hundred's influence held good until late 19th century reforms.

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