| Name | Shirwell Hundred |
| Alt names | Sherwell | source: A Vision of Britain through Time |
| Type | Hundred |
| Located in | Devon, England |
| Shirwill Hundred was located in the northeast corner of Devon facing the Bristol Channel and on the border with Somerset. It is now covered by part of the North Devon District. Shirwill Hundred is #24 on the map
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following statistics of Shirwell Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "SHERWILL, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Devon. The village stands 4¼ miles NE by N of Barnstaple [railway] station, and has a post-office under Barnstaple. The hundred contains eleven parishes. Acres: 47,648. Population: 4,392. Houses: 901."
GENUKI provides a longer description from White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire of 1850.
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Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Arlington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Brendon | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Challacombe | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Charles (South Molton) | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Countisbury | chapelry, civil parish |
| | High Bray | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Loxhore | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Lynton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Martinhoe | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Parracombe | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Shirwell | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Stoke Rivers | civil parish |
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