Spelthorne Hundred

Spelthorne
Area
 • 183123,386 acres (94.64 km2)[1][2]
Population
 • 183115,212[3]
 • 1881[4]33,460
History
 • Createdin late Anglo Saxon England
Statushundred
Subdivisions
 • TypeParishes containing manors, churchlands and commons.
Henry VIII created the two royal parks in the eastern two parishes - Bushy Park and Hampton Court Park - and set up hunting rights and similar privileges across much of the hundred. By the 19th century all the commons were enclosed and only manor with its lands largely undivided was Hampton Court.

Spelthorne was a hundred (dated subdivision) of the historic county of Middlesex, England. It contained these parishes and settlements:[5]

The present-day district of Spelthorne in Surrey amounts to about 59% of the hundred.[6][4] The eastern parts since 1965 form parts of the London boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames.

The parishes in the Hundred. These closely correspond with postcode districts.
  1. ^ Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Middlesex hundreds 1831 census population. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
  2. ^ "Table of population, 1801-1901 | British History Online".
  3. ^ "Spelthorne Hundred - Total Population". A Vision of Britain.
  4. ^ a b 'Table of Acreage and populations, 1801-1901', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 112-120. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp112-120 [accessed 24 May 2018].
  5. ^ "Table Of Population 1801–1901". British History. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  6. ^ 13733 of 23386 acres in terms of the traditional areas (parishes); the bulk successor has negligibly diverged on its external boundaries since 1901.