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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. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Cheltenham Hundred from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887):
Cheltenham is more known as a large town or municipal borough in Gloucestershire than for the hundred which includes it. [edit] Parishes
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