50°42′N 0°48′W / 50.7°N 0.8°W
| Hundred of Manhood | |
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| History | |
| • Created | 7th century |
| • Abolished | 19th century |
| • Succeeded by | Chichester District Council |
| Status | Abolished |
| Subdivisions | |
| • Type | Seven parishes |
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The Manhood Peninsula is in the southwest of West Sussex in England. It has the English Channel to its south and Chichester to the north. It is bordered to its west by Chichester Harbour and to its east by Pagham Harbour, its southern headland being Selsey Bill.
It was, including some hinterland, known as the Hundred of Manwood and the name is a corruption of the latter word. Set up in Anglo-Saxon-dominant England, it had its own courts and local government, eroded by the charitable and civic functions of the vestry and waxing and waning of the manorial system; the system of hundreds was abolished by Parliament in the 19th century.