| Culvestan | |
|---|---|
| Hundred of Shropshire | |
| History | |
| • Origin | Organisation of Mercia into shires |
| • Created | early 10th century |
| • Abolished | c. 1100-35 |
| • Succeeded by | Hundred of Munslow |
| Status | Hundred |
| Government | Caput (in 1066 & 1086) |
| • HQ | Corfham Castle |
| Contained within | |
| • County | Shropshire |
| Subdivisions | |
| • Type | Tithings & (later) Manors |
| • Units | 28 manors (in 1086) |
Culvestan was a hundred of Shropshire, England. Formed during Anglo-Saxon England, it encompassed manors in central southern Shropshire, and was amalgamated during the reign of Henry I (1100 to 1135) with the neighbouring hundred of Patton to form the Munslow hundred.
The hundred of Culvestan centred on the lower Corvedale but also included the Strettondale, and stretched from Cardington in the north to Ashford in the south. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) it betwixt Leintwardine hundred (which stretched northwards in the vicinity of the Roman road towards Wroxeter).
The manors of Aldon, Bromfield, Stanton and Stokesay were notably well-populated manors in Culvestan as recorded in the Book. Stanton had the greatest population in the county measured by number of households, as well as the fourth-greatest monetary value. The four, plus Onibury, occupied an expansive area at the confluences of the Corve and Onny with the River Teme.