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The Hundreds of Gloucestershire, as with hundreds in other English counties, were the original geographic divisions of the county for administrative, military and judicial purposes. Each hundred covered a number of parishes. The introduction of civil registration in 1837 was accompanied by the creation of other groups of parishes such as Sanitary Districts and Poor Law Unions.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Deerhurst Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "[DEERHURST] hundred consists of detached pieces; contains nine parishes and parts of three others; and is cut into two divisions, lower and upper. Acres: 11,909 and 7,970. Population of the whole: 4,994. Houses: 1,092."
Deerhurst is located northwest of Cheltenham.
A much more extensive description of the Deerhurst Hundred will be found in the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire found in the website British History Online.
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Parishes
Parish | Description | Notes
| Coln St. Dennis | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Deerhurst | parish (ancient), civil parish | also in Westminster Hundred
| Elmstone Hardwicke | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish | also in Westminster Hundred
| Leigh | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish | also in Westminster Hundred
| Little Compton | parish (ancient), civil parish | transferred to Warwickshire in 1844
| Prestbury | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Preston on Stour | parish (ancient), civil parish | transferred to Warwickshire in 1931
| Staverton | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Tirley | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish | also in Westminster Hundred
| Uckington | hamlet, civil parish |
| Welford on Avon | parish (ancient), civil parish | transferred to Warwickshire in 1931
| Woolstone | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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