Henbury Hundred was a subdivision of the county of

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

, England. Hundreds originated in the late Saxon period and lasted as administrative divisions until the 19th century. It comprised the five ancient

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

es of

Henbury Henbury is a suburb of Bristol, England, approximately north west of the city centre. It was formerly a village in Gloucestershire and is now bordered by Westbury-on-Trym to the south; Brentry to the east and the Blaise Castle Estate, Blaise Ha ...

, Westbury-upon-Trym, Greenfield Compton,

Stoke Gifford Stoke Gifford is a village and parish in South Gloucestershire, England, in the northern suburbs of Bristol. It had around 11,000 residents at the 2001 census, increasing to 15,494 at the 2011 census. It is home to Bristol Parkway station an ...

and

Yate Yate is a town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. It lies just to the southwest of the Cotswold Hills and is northeast of Bristol city centre and from the centre of Bath, with regular rail services to Bristol and Gloucester. ...

, except for the

tithing A tithing or tything was a historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally ten hides (and hence, one tenth of a hundred). Tithings later came to be seen as subdivisions of a manor or civil parish. The tithing's leader or ...

of Kings Weston, in Henbury parish, which was included in the

Hundred of Berkeley The hundred of Berkeley was one of the ancient hundreds of Gloucestershire, England. Hundreds originated in the late Saxon period as a subdivision of a county and lasted as administrative divisions until the 19th century. Berkeley Hundred was d ...

. In addition, the tithing of Itchington—part of Tytherington parish—was included in Henbury hundred, with the rest of the parish in Thornbury Hundred. The hundred was occasionally divided in Lower and Upper Divisions, the former comprising Westbury on Trym and part of Henbury and the latter the remainder of Henbury and the other parishes.The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland
1868, via GENUKI The hundred was named after the tithing and parish of Henbury, which came from ''hēah burh'', a high fortified place. At the time of the Domesday Book, the Hundred was known as Brentry (another settlement in Henbury parish) and had the same borders. It listed a total of 11 locations in the six parishes: * Henbury - Henbury, Charlton,

Aust Aust is a small village in South Gloucestershire, England, about north of Bristol and about south west of Gloucester. It is located on the eastern side of the Severn estuary, close to the eastern end of the Severn Bridge which carries the M ...

and Redwick * Greenfield Compton * Tytherington - Itchington * Westbury upon Trym - Westbury upon Trym, Redland,

Stoke Bishop Stoke Bishop is a medium-sized outer city suburb in the north-west of Bristol, located in between Westbury-on-Trym, Sneyd Park, and Sea Mills. Although relatively low, Stoke Bishop's population has increased due to substantial infilling on the ...

* Yate * Stoke Gifford

References

{{Hundreds of Gloucestershire Hundreds of Gloucestershire History of Bristol Henbury