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| Name | Cranborne Hundred |
| Type | Hundred |
| Coordinates | 50.919°N 1.922°W |
| Located in | Dorset, England |
Cranborne Hundred was a hundred in the northeast of the county of Dorset, England comprising over 34,000 acres and containing eleven parishes. Between 1974 and 2019 the area was covered by the East Dorset District.
A map of "the ancient county of Dorset in 1834, showing the Liberties, Hundreds and Boroughs" is to be found in Wikimedia. Unfortunately the print is too small to make it worthwhile reproducing the map here. Many of the hundreds had detached parts.
Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Alderholt | ancient parish, civil parish | created from Cranborne in 1894
| | Ashmore | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Belchalwell | ancient parish, civil parish | divided between Okeford Fitzpaine and Fifehead Neville 1884
| | Cranborne | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Edmondsham | ancient parish, civil parish | split between two hundreds
| | Farnham | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Fifehead Neville | civil parish | formed from Belchalwell in 1884
| | Hampreston | ancient parish, civil parish | originally split between Dorset and Hampshire; entire parish from the 1860s
| | Okeford Fitzpane | civil parish | formed from Belchalwell in 1884
| | Pentridge | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Shillingstone | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Tarrant Gunville | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Tarrant Rushton | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Tollard Royal | ancient parish, civil parish | split between Dorset and Wiltshire until the 1880s, then entirely in Wiltshire
| | Turnworth | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Verwood | civil parish | created from Cranborne in 1894
| | West Parley | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Witchampton | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Woodyates | extra parochial area, civil parish | includes East Woodyates and West Woodyates, created a civil parish in 1858
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From Wikipedia
- "A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, South Australia and some parts of the United States, to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions; similar divisions were made in Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Norway."
Hundreds were replaced by Registration Districts or Poor Law Unions between 1837 and 1850, and then by Rural and Urban Districts and Municipal Boroughs in 1894.
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