Place:Isleworth Hundred, Middlesex, England

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NameIsleworth Hundred
TypeHundred
Coordinates51.47°N 0.35°W
Located inMiddlesex, England
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Isleworth Hundred was a subdivision of the historic county of Middlesex, England. In Domesday Book (1086) it was recorded as Hundeslaw Hundred ("Hounslow Hundred" in modern spelling). It was located on the River Thames, slightly to the west of the centre of the county east to west. It was the smallest of the county's six hundreds, amounting to 5% of the county's total area of 734km2 in 1801.

The hundred contained three parishes, whose acreage and square miles area are given as at the 1870s-1880s:

  • Heston, 3720 acres or 15.1 square kilometres (5.8 sq mi)
  • Isleworth, 3143 acres or 12.7 square kilometres (4.9 sq mi)
  • Twickenham, 2249 acres or 9.1 square kilometres (3.5 sq mi)
Image:Spelthorne and Isleworth Hundreds.png

In earliest records all of the above area was exceptionally part of one manor, that of Isleworth based at Syon Abbey. The ownership separated in the middle of the medieval centuries; that of Heston was inherited from marriage of the daughter of Francis Child by the Earl of Jersey (with the Childs-Villier and later Villier surname) until the 20th century. It had its seat at Osterley House in Osterley in the northeast of Isleworth parish. The other two main manors fell into the hands of the Duke of Northumberland (with the surname Percy) who took over the abbey's demense and built Syon House in the east of in Isleworth.

Further named clusters of buildings (sometimes termed hamlets) emerged during its relevant currency:

  • Hounslow which from the 16th century straddled the divide between the parishes of Heston and Isleworth.
  • Whitton in the parish of Twickenham
  • Sutton Green in the parish of Heston and redirected there.
  • North Hyde in the parish of Heston and redirected there.
  • Lampton in the parish of Heston and redirected there.
  • Worton in the parish of Isleworth and redirected there.
  • Wyke in the parish of Isleworth and redirected there.
  • Scrattage (now part of Osterley) in the parish of Heston and redirected to Osterley.

[Add relevant part of sketchmap from Middlesex_parishes.jpg. Credit Adam37 and wikimedia]

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