Desborough (hundred)

Desborough (hundred)

Coordinates: 51°37′58″N 0°46′39″W / 51.63278°N 0.7775°W / 51.63278; -0.7775

Desborough Hundred
Desborough
Geography
Status Hundred
1871 area 45,337 acres (183.47 km2)[1]
HQ Desborough Castle
History
Created 11th century
Abolished 1880s
1871 population 19,198[2]
Subdivisions
Type Parishes

Desborough Hundred is a hundred in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the south of the county and is bounded on the west by Oxfordshire and on the south the River Thames marked the boundary with Berkshire.

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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] Desborough hundred is one of three hundreds which became collectively known as the Chiltern hundreds around the 13th century, the others being Burnham hundred and Stoke 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

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

   

Bradenham Ibstone(part of) Stokenchurch
Fawley Great Marlow Turville
Fingest Little Marlow Wooburn
Hambleden Medmenham Chepping Wycombe (later High Wycombe)
Hedsor Radnage West Wycombe
Hughenden Saunderton  

† Stokenchurch was originally in Oxfordshire and transferred to Buckinghamshire in the latter part of the 19th century after the hundred was superseded.

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