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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 Duchy of Lancaster Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "LANCASTER (DUCHY OF), a hundred in the NW of Gloucester; consisting of detached parts; and containing Bulley parish, four other parishes, and part of another. Acres: 8,768. Population: 2,717. Houses: 567."
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