Place:Whorwellsdown Hundred, Wiltshire, England

Whorwellsdown Hundred includes the town of Trowbridge and its western border is with the county of Somerset. To the north are the hundreds of Bradford, Melksham and Potterne and Cannings, to the east is a small section of Swanborough Hundred, and to the south is Westbury Hundred. According to John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72, it covered 19,308 acres and had a population of 5,505 inhabiting 1,234 houses. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

To place the hundred within the county, see Map of the Hundreds of Wiltshire, 1832, a map from HMSO Boundary Commissioners, dated 1832, also provided by A Vision of Britain through Time.

The Hundred and its individual parishes are covered in Volume 8 of the Victoria County History for Wiltshire

List of Parishes