Carlford is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 25,461 acres (103.04 km2).[1]
Carford Hundred is of an irregular figure about ten miles (16 km) in length and from four to six miles (9.7 km) wide. It is bounded on the south by Colneis Hundred, on the east by Wilford Hundred and the River Deben, on the north by Loes Hundred and on the west by Bosmere and Claydon Hundred and the borough of Ipswich. It falls in the Deanery of Carlford, and in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk.
The southern part of the hundred running from the bounds of Ipswich to Woodbridge and the River Deben has generally a light sandy soil, whereas in its northern parts a rich loam prevails.
Listed as Carleford in Domesday Book, the name has the structure "carla ford", meaning "ford of the churls (peasants)".[2][3] It was one of seven Saxon hundreds grouped together as the Wicklaw Hundreds.[4]
Greenwich, Ipswich was listed as "Grenewic", which means a “green farmstead”, was listed as being in Carlford Hundred in Domesday Book, but was subsequently integrated into Ipswich as part of St Clement's Parish.[5]
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- ^ Walter Skeat (1913). The Place-names of Suffolk. p. 32.
- ^ Keith Briggs and Kelly Kilpatrick (2016). A Dictionary of Suffolk Place-names. p. 30.
- ^ Williamson, Tom (2018). "New Light on Rendlesham". The Historian (139). The Historical Association.
- ^ "Ipswich, England". Planet Ipswich: A bridge between the Ipswiches of the world. Stefrapes Productions. Retrieved 16 October 2019.