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The Hundreds of Gloucestershire, as with hundreds in other English counties, were the original geographic divisions of the county for administrative, military and judicial purposes. Each hundred covered a number of parishes. The introduction of civil registration in 1837 was accompanied by the creation of other groups of parishes such as Sanitary Districts and Poor Law Unions.
According to the map, the upper division of Thornbury Hundred was located in the southeast corner of the county, adjoining Somerset and Wiltshire; the lower division of Thornbury Hundred was north of Bristol. It would also appear from the map that the division next to the county border was the smaller and thus should be named the lower division. The map of the hundreds from A Vision of Britain through Time indicates that this division only includes the parish of Marshfield.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Thornbury Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "THORNBURY, ... a hundred, in Gloucester. The hundred contains 7 parishes and a part; and is cut into two divisions, lower and upper. Acres: 20,759 and 5,845. Population in 1851: 6,344 and 1,648; in 1861: 7,917. Houses: 1,753."
Most, if not all, of these parishes are found in other hundreds as well.
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