| Tavistock Hundred was made up of two detached portions and located on the border with Cornwall. It is #27 on the map.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Tavistock Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
"TAVISTOCK, a town, a parish, a [registration] sub-district, a [registration] district, and a hundred, in Devon. The town stands on the river Tavy, and on the Plymouth and Launceston railway, 16½ miles N of Plymouth; [it] took its name from the Tavy....The hundred contains three parishes. Acres, 18,529. Population: 10,155. Houses, 1,400."
GENUKI provides a longer description from White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire of 1850.
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