Place:Cheltenham Hundred, Gloucestershire, England

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NameCheltenham Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inGloucestershire, England

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.-- hundred, E. Gloucestershire, 5791 acres, population 7652."

Cheltenham is more known as a large town or municipal borough in Gloucestershire than for the hundred which includes it.

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