Place:Kingsbridge Hundred, Wiltshire, England

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NameKingsbridge Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inWiltshire, England

Kingsbridge Hundred included the towns of Swindon and Wootton Bassett (now Royal Wootton Bassett). It was bounded on the north by Highworth Hundred, on the east by Ramsbury, on the south by Selkley and Calne, and on the west by the hundred of Malmesbury.

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

"KINGSBRIDGE, a hundred in the N of Wilts; containing Chiseldon parish, ten other parishes, and part of another. Acres: 37,885. Population in 1851: 14,045; in 1861: 15,363. Houses: 3,036."

To place the hundred within the county, see Map of the Hundreds of Wiltshire, 1832, a map from HMSO Boundary Commissioners, dated 1832, provided by A Vision of Britain through Time.

The Hundred and its individual parishes are covered in Volume 9 of the Victoria County History for Wiltshire

List of Parishes

ParishDescriptionNotes
Broad Town hamlet, chapelry, civil parish
Chisledon parish (ancient), civil parish
Clyffe Pypard parish (ancient), civil parish
Draycot Foliat parish (ancient), civil parish part of Chisledon since 1894
Hillmarton parish (ancient), civil parish
Liddington parish (ancient), civil parish
Lydiard Tregoze parish (ancient), civil parish
Lyneham parish (ancient), civil parish
Swindon parish (ancient), civil parish
Tockenham parish (ancient), civil parish
Wanborough parish (ancient), civil parish
Wootton Bassett parish (ancient), civil parish