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The Hundreds of Gloucestershire, as with hundreds in other English counties, were the original geographic divisions of the county for administrative, military and judicial purposes. Each hundred covered a number of parishes. The introduction of civil registration in 1837 was accompanied by the creation of other groups of parishes such as Sanitary Districts and Poor Law Unions.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Tibaldstone Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "TIBALDSTONE, a hundred in the N of Gloucester; containing 3 parishes. Acres: 6,209. Population: 1,076. Houses: 233."
"Tibblestone hundred lay on the northern edge of the county, and in 1931 the greater part of the three parishes within it, Ashton under Hill, Beckford, and Hinton on the Green, were transferred to Worcestershire."
(Source: 'The hundred of Tibblestone', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 8, (ed. C R Elrington (London, 1968), pp. 243-244)
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