Place:Biggleswade Hundred, Bedfordshire, England

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NameBiggleswade Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inBedfordshire, England

Biggleswade Hundred was the easternmost of the hundreds of Bedfordshire, England. It was oval in shape and its long eastern boundary was with Cambridgeshire. On the west it was bounded, from south to north, by the hundreds of Clifton, Wixamtree and Barford.

The hundreds of Bedfordshire are displayed on a map by George Carrington Gray first published in Gray's Book of Roads and reproduced in Wikimedia Commons.

List of Parishes with chapelries and townships

Ancient Parish Parish Status Subsidiary Places Subsidiary Place Status Notes
Astwick chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish none
Biggleswade parish (ancient), civil parish none
Cockayne Hatley parish (ancient), civil parish none
Dunton parish (ancient), civil parish none
Edworth parish (ancient), civil parish none
Everton parish (ancient), civil parish Tetworth hamlet, chapelry Tetworth is in Huntingdonshire but the parish is in Bedfordshire.
Eyeworth parish (ancient), civil parish none
Langford parish (ancient), civil parish none
Little Barford parish (ancient), civil parish none
Potton parish (ancient), civil parish none
Sandy parish (ancient), civil parish none
Sutton parish (ancient), civil parish none
Tempsford parish (ancient), civil parish none
Wrestlingworth parish (ancient), civil parish none

Research tips

  • The website British History Online provides three chapters of the Victoria County History Series on Bedfordshire. The first covers the religious houses of the county; the second and third provides articles on the parishes of the county. The parishes are arranged within their "hundreds".
  • GENUKI main page for Bedfordshire which provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
  • Bedfordshire family history societies are listed in GENUKI.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851. There is a list of all the parishes in existence at that date with maps indicating their boundaries. The website is very useful for finding the ecclesiastical individual parishes within large cities and towns.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Bedfordshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
  • These two maps indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.