Between

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

times and the nineteenth century, Huntingdonshire was divided for administrative purposes into four roughly equally sized hundreds, plus the borough of

Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by John, King of England, King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver C ...

. Each

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ...

had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters. The four were Norman Cross, Leightonstone, Hurstingstone, and Toseland, which respectively fill the northern, western, eastern and southern quarters of

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. The hundreds were probably of very early origin, and that of Norman Cross is referred to in 963. The

Domesday Survey Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

, besides the four divisions given above, which from their assessment appear to have been double hundreds, mentions an additional hundred of Kimbolton, since absorbed in Leightonstone, while Huntingdon was assessed separately at 50 hides. The boundaries of the county have scarcely changed since the time of the Domesday Survey, except that parts of the

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated ''Beds'') is a Ceremonial County, ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the south and the south-east, and Buckin ...

parishes of Everton,

Pertenhall Pertenhall is a small village and civil parishes in England, civil parish located in Bedfordshire, close to the borders of Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Its parish council is a Quality Parish Council. It has recently published its Parish ...

and

Keysoe Keysoe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bolnhurst and Keysoe, in the Bedford district, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 432. On 1 April 1934 the parish was aboli ...

and the

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parish of Hargrave were then assessed under Huntingdonshire.Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 (Huntingdonshire)

Parishes

At the start of the 19th century, the hundreds contained the following parishes: In addition, three detached parishes formed part of Huntingdonshire until they were incorporated into

in the late 19th century, and each was historically part of one of the

Hundreds of Bedfordshire Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century Bedfordshire was divided for administrative purposes into 9 hundreds, plus the borough of Bedford. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxati ...

Eaton Socon Eaton Socon is a district of St Neots, in the civil parish of St Neots, in the Huntingdonshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England, 1.4 miles south-west of St Neots town centre. Eaton Socon is a component of the town of St Neot ...

fell into Barford hundred, Everton in Biggleswade hundred, and

Tilbrook Tilbrook is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, approximately west of Huntingdon and north-west of Cambridge. Though administered as part of Cambridgeshire, the village historically belonged ...

in Stodden hundred.

References

External links

Cambridge Military History Blog
A dialogue focused on the history of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire from a military perspective {{DEFAULTSORT:Hundreds Of Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right. It borders Peterborough to the north, Fenland to the north-east, East Cambridgeshire to the e ...

Parishes

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