Underditch Hundred

Underditch Hundred was a judicial and taxation subdivision of the English county of Wiltshire that existed from the about the 8th century[1] to the 19th century.

The hundred contained the parishes of Salisbury, Stratford-sub-Castle, Durnford, Woodford and Wilsford cum Lake.[2]

It was named after the meeting place where the court was originally held, in Durnford, which was recorded in a mid-tenth-century charter as windryðe dic.[3]

The hundred was held by the Bishop of Salisbury at the time of Domesday in 1086 and consisted of 70 hides.[2]

References

  1. ^ Draper, Simon Andrew (2004). Landscape, settlement and society: Wiltshire in the first millennium AD (Doctoral thesis). Durham University.
  2. ^ a b "The hundred of Underditch: Introduction | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
  3. ^ John Baker & Stuart Brookes. (2015) Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England. Journal of Field Archaeology 40:1, pages 3-21.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.