Place:Kibbor Hundred, Glamorgan, Wales

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NameKibbor Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inGlamorgan, Wales

Kibbor Hundred covers the area around Cardiff in the southeast of Glamorgan. Caerphilly Hundred is to the north, Dinas Powys to the west, the Bristol Channel to the south and the county of Monmouthshire to the east. With Dinas Poyws it is the most densely populated, even in the 19th century.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Kibbor from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"KIBBOR, a hundred in the SE of Glamorgan; containing Llandaff parish and five other parishes. Acres: 15,487. Population in 1851: 3,248; in 1861: 10,724. Houses: 1,925."

Cardiff was considered a separate "ancient borough" and although its ecclesiastical parishes are shown in the list below, in some ways it was not included in the definition of the hundred.

GENUKI provides a map from 'Historic Parishes of England and Wales - Boundaries before 1850' to which the boundaries of the hundreds have been superimposed. Dates are those for earliest parish registers. (Full source notes for the original map on the GENUKI page.)

List of Parishes

ParishDescriptionNotes
Cardiff St. John and St. Mary parish (ancient), civil parish
Lisvane parish (ancient), civil parish
Llanishen parish (ancient), civil parish
Llandaff parish (ancient), civil parish
Llanedern parish (ancient), civil parish
Roath parish (ancient), civil parish
Whitchurch parish (ancient), civil parish