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| Name | Stratton Hundred |
| Type | Hundred |
| Coordinates | 50.863°N 4.509°W |
| Located in | Cornwall, England |
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."
In England hundreds were replaced by Registration Districts, Poor Law Unions and urban and rural sanitary districts between 1837 and 1850, and then by Rural and Urban Districts and Municipal Boroughs in 1895. In 1974 the districts and boroughs were abolished and today Cornwall is a unitary authority.
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
The name Stratton was given to the unit of government for taxation during Saxon times, known as a ‘Hundred’. Stratton was the head of its hundred due to its importance in comparison to that of the local towns and villages (listed below). Other than the loss of Bridgerule, the Stratton Hundred remained undisturbed until the demise of the Stratton Rural District in the 1970s.
The Hundred is an indicator of Stratton’s importance not only for these reasons, but also because in the whole of Cornwall, there were only nine Hundreds and all of them had their own courts. This suggests that not only did Stratton have a courthouse, it was probably the only one in its Hundred. (At the time of Domesday Book there were only seven hundreds: the hundred of Trigg was later divided into Trigg, Lesnewth and Stratton. Stratton manor was the head manor of Trigg hundred in Domesday Book.)
The map of the Hundreds of Cornwall is titled in English and Cornish. The Cornish language is still spoken today by a small proportion of Cornish residents. (Map source: Wikipedia)
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List of Parishes
| Parish | Type | Notes
| | Boyton | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Bridgerule | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Jacobstow | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Kilkhampton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Launcells | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Marhamchurch | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Morwenstow | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | North Tamerton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Northcott | hamlet, civil parish |
| | Poughill | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Stratton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Week St. Mary | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Whitstone | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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