Thingoe Hundred

Thingoe was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 31,850 acres (128.9 km²).^[1]

One of the smaller hundreds of Suffolk, around 9 miles (14 km) wide and 11 miles (18 km) long, Thingoe contained the borough of Bury St Edmunds on its eastern border, though the town was considered a separate jurisdiction. The remainder of the hundred consisted of the land to the west of Bury St Edmunds. The River Lark rises in the hundred, flowing north to the River Little Ouse.

The name derives from the words thing, a Norse word meaning "assembly", and howe, again Norse, meaning detached hill or mound.^[2]

Parishes

Suffolk hundreds

Thingoe Hundred consisted of the following 18 parishes:^[1]^[3]

Parish	Area (acres)
Barrow	2810
Brockley	1080
Chevington	2240
Flempton	720
Fornham All Saints	2200
Great Saxham	1670
Hargrave	1870
Hawstead	1980
Hengrave	1000
Horningsheath	1780
Ickworth	1350
Lackford	2470
Little Saxham	1300
Nowton	1320
Rede	1310
Risby	2620
Westley	680
Whepstead	3450

References

1 2 William White (1844). History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk. p. 601.
↑ Walter Skeat (1913). The Place-names of Suffolk.
↑ 1841 Census

Ancient Hundreds of Suffolk

Hundreds	Babergh Blackbourn Blything Bosmere-and-Claydon Carlford Colneis Cosford Hartismere Hoxne Lackford Loes Mutford and Lothingland Plomesgate Risbridge Samford Stow Thedwestry Thingoe Thredling Wangford Wilford

Boroughs outside a hundred	Bury St Edmunds Ipswich Sudbury

Coordinates: 52°15′N 0°39′E / 52.25°N 0.65°E / 52.25; 0.65

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