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The original Hundred of Odsey was named after the hamlet of Odsey which is in Cambridgeshire close to the border with Hertfordshire and near the town of Baldock.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Odsey Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "ODSEY, a hundred in the N of Herts; adjacent to Cambridgeshire; and containing Ashwell parish, fourteen other parishes, and part of Royston. Acres: 32,386. Population in 1851, 8,552; in 1861: 8,174. Houses: 1,698."
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Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Ardeley | ancient parish, civil parish | in Odsey Hundred until 1843, then transferred to Edwinstree Hundred
| | Ashwell | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Barley | ancient parish, civil parish | in Edwinstree Hundred until 1841, then transferred to Odsey Hundred
| | Broadfield | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Bygrave | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Caldecote | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Clothall | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Cottered | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Hinxworth | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Kelshall | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Radwell | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Reed | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Royston | parochial area, ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Rushden | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Sandon | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Shillington, Bedfordshire | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Therfield | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Wallington | ancient parish, civil parish |
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Research Tips
The hundred of Odsey: Introduction and map as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 3, pp 192-193
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