Place:Beaminster Hundred, Dorset, England

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NameBeaminster Hundred
TypeHundred
Coordinates50.809°N 2.739°W
Located inDorset, England

Beaminster Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England. The list of parishes given below came from A Vision of Britain through Time. Some sources, including those used by Wikipedia, list all the parishes of Beaminster Hundred with those of Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred. (See the explanation under Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred.) The map described below outlines the two hundreds separately. Co-ordinates used are those of Beaminster.

A map of "the ancient county of Dorset in 1834, showing the Liberties, Hundreds and Boroughs" is to be found in Wikimedia. Unfortunately the print is too small to make it worthwhile reproducing the map here. Many of the hundreds had detached parts.

Parishes

Parish Description Notes
Beaminster chapelry, civil parish
Chardstock ancient parish, civil parish transferred to Devon in 1896
Chedington ancient parish, civil parish
Corscombe ancient parish, civil parish
Netherbury ancient parish, civil parish
Stoke Abbott ancient parish, civil parish
Wambrook chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish transferred to Somerset 1895


From Wikipedia

"A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, South Australia and some parts of the United States, to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions; similar divisions were made in Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Norway."

Hundreds were replaced by Registration Districts or Poor Law Unions between 1837 and 1850, and then by Rural and Urban Districts and Municipal Boroughs in 1894.

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