Place:Fawsley Hundred, Northamptonshire, England

Fawsley Hundred is on the western side of Northamptonshire and has a border with Warwickshire. It is also bounded on the northeast by Guilsborough Hundred, on the east by Nobottle Grove and Towcester Hundreds, and on the south by Greens Norton and Chipping Warden Hundreds. Its main settlement was Daventry.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Fawsley Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"The hundred contains twenty-one parishes; and, prior to the time of Henry III [12th century], existed as the two hundreds of Alwardeslea and Gravesend. Acres: 42,386. Population in 1851: 11,750; in 1861: 10,841. Houses: 2,472."

Notes

• For another map of the hundreds of of Northamptonshire, see A Vision of Britain through Time.
• Fawsley Hundred is not covered by the Victoria County History of Northamptonshire.