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Highworth Cricklade and Staple Hundred is more commonly known as "Highworth Hundred" and covers a large area in the northeastern corner of Wiltshire, England. Today the eastern part of the area is the Swindon unitary authority, while the western part is included with the rest of the historic county in the Wiltshire unitary authority. Malmesbury Hundred bordered it on the west, and Kingsbridge Hundred on the south. Its county borders were with Gloucestershire to the north and Berkshire to the east. This western part of Berkshire became Oxfordshire in 1974.
To place the hundred within the county, see Map of the Hundreds of Wiltshire, 1832, a map from HMSO Boundary Commissioners, dated 1832, provided by A Vision of Britain through Time.
Only a part of the Hundred is covered in the Victoria County History for Wiltshire. These will be found in Volume 18.
List of Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Ashton Keynes | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Blunsdon St. Andrew | parish (ancient), civil parish | now part of Blunsdon
| | Braydon | hamlet, civil parish |
| | Castle Eaton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Coleshill | parish (ancient), civil parish | part in Wiltshire until 1881
| | Cricklade St. Mary | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged into Cricklade in 1899
| | Cricklade St. Sampson | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged into Cricklade in 1899
| | Eisey | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged into Latton in 1896
| | Hannington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Highworth | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Inglesham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Latton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Leigh | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Lydiard Millicent | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Marston Maisey | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Poulton | parish (ancient), civil parish | transferred to Gloucestershire in 1844
| | Purton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Rodborne Cheney | parish (ancient), civil parish | split between Swindon and Haydon Wick in 1927
| | Shorncote | parish (ancient), civil parish | also known as Shorncott, merged with Somerford Keynes around 1894
| | Somerford Keynes | parish (ancient), civil parish | transferred to Gloucestershire around 1894
| | Stanton Fitzwarren | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Stratton St. Margaret | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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