Stoke Hundred

Coordinates: 51°32′47″N 0°35′04″W / 51.546319°N 0.584391°W / 51.546319; -0.584391

Stoke Hundred

Area
 • 1861 27,669 acres (111.97 km2)[1]
Population
 • 1861 16911[2]
History
 • Created 11th century
 • Abolished 1880s
Status Hundred
Subdivisions
 • Type Parishes

Stoke Hundred is a hundred in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the south of the county and is bounded on the east by Middlesex and on the south by Berkshire.

History

Until at least the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire. It has been suggested however that neighbouring hundreds had already become more closely associated in the 11th century so that by the end of the 14th century the original or ancient hundreds had been consolidated into 8 larger hundreds.[3] Stoke hundred is one of three hundreds which became collectively known as the Chiltern hundreds around the 13th century, the others being Burnham hundred and Desborough hundred. Even before this time these individual hundreds had become possessions of the Crown and were nominally stewarded as a royal bailiwick. The hundreds lost their collective 'Chilterns' title having become separately leased though retaining their individual administrative status as Buckinghamshire hundreds. Meanwhile the role of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds persisted in name only becoming an appointment of the House of Commons.

Parishes and hamlets

Stoke hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, (formerly medieval vills):[4]    

ColnbrookDatchet Denham
†EtonFulmerHedgerley
HortonIverLangley Marish
Stoke Poges Upton-cum-ChalveyWexham
Wyrardisbury   

† Eton was originally in Burnham hundred.

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