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Spelthorne Hundred was a hundred (or ancient subdivision) of the ancient county of Middlesex, England. In 1931 it had an area of 23,386 acres (94.64 km2) which supported a population of 15,212. By 1881 the population had increased to 33,460 without any change in area.
Henry VIII created the two royal parks in the eastern two parishes: Bushy Park and Hampton Court Park, and set up hunting rights and similar privileges across much of the hundred. By the 19th century all the commons were enclosed and only manor with its lands largely undivided was Hampton Court.
The present-day District of Spelthorne in Surrey corresponds to the western part (59%) of the former hundred. The eastern parts now (since 1965) form parts of the London boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames.
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The hundred contained the following parishes and settlements :
- Ashford
- East Bedfont including the hamlet of Hatton (redirected to East Bedfont).
- Feltham
- Hampton including the settlement of Hampton Hill which developed in the 19th century
- Hampton Wick
- Hanworth
- Laleham
- Littleton since the 1970s contiguous with Shepperton. The chapelry of Astleham or Aslam disappeared into the Queen Mary Reservoir in the 1930s and had been redirected to Littleton.
- Shepperton
- Staines
- Stanwell includes the hamlet of Stanwell Moor,
- Sunbury includes the hamlet (now a village) of Upper Halliford and the hamlet of Charlton. (Both of these small places redirected to Shepperton, their postal link.)
- Teddington includes part of the neighbourhood of Fulwell, once a single-ownership estate.
Research Tips
Middlesex Research Tips
Parts of Middlesex were absorbed into London in 1889 (Inner London), and some in 1965 (Outer London). Depending on the specific location and the year being investigated it may be necessary to check London records as well as those of Middlesex.
- See wiki.familysearch.org under "Middlesex" for key information about the jurisdictions and records of Middlesex, plus links to indexes, reference aids and Family History Library holdings. As at October 2019 FamilySearch has updated its listings of Parish Registers, 1538-1912 for Westminster.
- The London Metropolitan Archives (40 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0HB) holds records relating to the whole of Greater London. Ancestry (subscription necessary) has produced transcriptions and provides images of lists of baptisms, marriages, and burials in churches across Greater London. These lists start in 1813 and stretch into the 20th century.
- The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex is a series of volumes available online through British History Online. The volumes were written over the past hundred or so years by a number of authors and cover various sections of Middlesex. A list of the volumes and what each contains can be found under the source Victoria History of the County of Middlesex
- GENUKI has a long list of websites and archive holders in addition to London Metropolitan Archives above. (The list from GENUKI is not maintained so well that there is never a dead link in it. However, it is often worth googling the title given on the page just in case the contributor has reorganized their website.)
- GENUKI has a separate page for Middlesex references.
- GENUKI also has a list of the Archives and Local Studies Libraries for each of the boroughs of Greater London.
- Registration Districts in Middlesex and Registration Districts in London, are lists of the registration districts used for civil registration (births, marriages and deaths, as well as the censuses). There are linked supporting lists of the parishes which made up each registration district, the dates of formation and abolition of the districts, the General Register Office numbers, and the local archive-holding place. This work has been carried out by Brett Langston under the agency of GENUKI (Genealogy United Kingdom and Ireland) and UKBMD - Births, Marriages, Deaths & Censuses on the Internet.
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