Carlford is a

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, consisting of . Carford Hundred is of an irregular figure about in length and from four to wide. It is bounded on the south by

Colneis Hundred Colneis is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . Running from the south-east outskirts of Ipswich to the North Sea coast, the hundred is made up of the land between the estuaries of the rivers Orwell and Deben. It is one of the smallest in Suffolk ...

, on the east by

Wilford Hundred Wilford is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . Wilford Hundred extends about southward from Debach to Woodbridge and from there along the eastern banks of the River Deben to Bawdsey and Hollesley Bay in the North Sea. It covers about of the ...

and the

River Deben The River Deben is a river in Suffolk rising to the west of Debenham, though a second, higher source runs south from the parish of Bedingfield. The river passes through Woodbridge, turning into a tidal estuary before entering the North Sea at Fe ...

, on the north by

Loes Hundred Loes was a hundred of Suffolk, with an area of . Loes Hundred was long and thin in shape, around long and between 2 and wide. It followed the course of the River Deben from Cretingham to Ufford where it crossed Wilford Hundred to Woodbridge whe ...

and on the west by

Bosmere and Claydon Hundred Bosmere and Claydon was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . The hundred is a fertile and picturesque district varying from 8 to about in length and breadth. It is bounded on the south by the Borough of Ipswich and Samford Hundred, on the west ...

and the borough of

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

. It falls in the Deanery of Carlford, and in the Archdeaconry of

. The southern part of the hundred running from the bounds of Ipswich to

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and the River Deben has generally a light sandy soil, whereas in its northern parts a rich loam prevails. Listed as ''Carleford'' in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

, the name has the structure "carla ford", meaning "ford of the

churl A churl (Old High German ), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man" or more particularly a "free man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled , and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. Ac ...

s (peasants)".

Greenwich, Ipswich Greenwich is a suburban area of Ipswich, in the Ipswich district, in the county of Suffolk, England. For many years it was a hamlet included in the parish of St Clement's and thus was part of the Ipswich Corporation from the time of its creation ...

was listed as "Grenewic", which means a “green farmstead”, was listed as being in Carlford Hundred in the Doomsday book, but was subsequently integrated into

as part of St Clement's Parish.

Parishes

Carlford Hundred consists of the following 18 parishes:1841 Census

References

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