| Name | Cogdean Hundred |
| Type | Hundred |
| Coordinates | 50.76°N 2.016°W |
| Located in | Dorset, England |
Cogdean Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England
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
| | Canford Magna | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Charlton Marshall | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Corfe Mullen | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Hamworthy | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Kinson | tything, civil parish |
| | Longfleet | hamlet, tything, civil parish |
| | Lytchett Matravers | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Lytchett Minster | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Parkstone | extraparochial area, civil parish |
| | Sturminster Marshall | ancient parish, civil parish |
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The ancient borough of Poole was originally part of the parish of Canford Magna, but was made a borough (and therefore independent of the hundred) from 1248, and a county of itself from 1571. A "county of itself" was a town or city which was effectively a small self-governing urban county.
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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