Dengie 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 ...
in the county of
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
, England.
It corresponded to the
Dengie peninsula
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Dengie is a peninsula in Essex, England, that once formed a hundred (subdivision), hundred of the same name (sometimes spelled Dengy).
The peninsula is formed by the River Crouch to the south, the River Blackwater, Essex, Blackwater to ...
, with the inland, western boundary running from
North Fambridge
North Fambridge is a village and civil parish on the Dengie peninsula in the English county of Essex.
North Fambridge is on the north bank of the River Crouch opposite South Fambridge and is served by North Fambridge railway station on the Cr ...
to just west of
Maldon
Maldon (, locally ) is a town and civil parish on the River Blackwater, Essex, Blackwater estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon District and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. It is known for Maldon Sea ...
. It was known at the time of Domesday as Witbrictesherna (''Wibrihtesherne'') Hundred
Open Domesday: Wibrihtesherne Hundred
/ref> until the hundred court changed its meeting location.
See also
*Hundreds of Essex
Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century the English county of Essex was divided for administrative purposes into 19 hundreds, plus the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower and the boroughs of Colchester, Harwich, and Maldon. Each hundred h ...
References
Hundreds of Essex
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