Flendish Hundred (more commonly Flendish) was a pre-

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administrative division of the county of

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. It probably got its name from

Fleam Dyke Fleam Dyke is a linear earthwork between Fulbourn and Balsham in Cambridgeshire, initiated at some timepoint between AD 330 and AD 510. It is three miles long and seven metres high from ditch to bank, and its ditch faces westwards, implying inv ...

. Hundreds were intermediate administrative divisions, larger than villages and smaller than shires, that survived until the 19th century. It was probably created in the early 10th century. Flendish was first recorded in the

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. In the 11th century Flendish hundred contained four

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s, later divided into five parishes: Fulbourn, Teversham, Hinton, and Horningsea (today, Fen Ditton and Horningsea).Flendish Hundred, British History Online
/ref> Fleam Dyke was probably the base from which the forces of King

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began to ravage the lands of the East Anglian Danes in 903. These campaigns ended by 920 with his subjugation of the southern Danelaw.

Alternative Spellings

Before English spelling was formalised, the spelling varied considerably showing the Germanic, Norse and Flemish cultural influences of East Anglia before the time when English was declared England's language by Edward III. itation P. H. Reaney, The Place-Names of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely (EPNS 19), Cambridge 1943. Flendish Hundred Flamingdice, Flammindic, Flammidinc, Flammiding 1086 DB Flammincdic, Flammigedic, Flammicgedic, Flammingedich, Flammedigedig 1086 InqEl Flamencdic 1086 ICC Flammedich 1155-7 P Flamedich(e) 1175-9 P , 1251 ElyCouch , 1277 Ely , 14th Cai Flaundishe 1553 Pat Flem(e)dich(e), Flem(e)dych(e) 1188 P et freq to, 1523 SR Flemesdich 1218 SR , 1284 FA , 1298 Ass Flemedic 1218 SR Flemdik(e), Flemdyk(e) 1268, 1285 Ass Flem(i)sdich 1279 RH Flemdisch 1372 SR Flem(e)dys(s)h 1457 IpmR , 1523 SR Flendiche 1428 FA , 1570 SR Flendishe, Flendyshe t. Hy 6 Cole xxxvii, 1560 Depositions Flendick 1570 SR Flyndiche 1553 Pat Flyndysshe 1557 Pat

References

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