The county of
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 ...
was divided into
hundreds between
Saxon
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
times and the 19th century, when they were replaced for administrative purposes by districts.
In 1831 the county was subdivided into twenty-one hundreds and three municipal boroughs.
The majority of these hundreds had remained unchanged since the time of the
Domesday Survey, except that in 1086 Babergh was listed as two hundreds, Cosford, Ipswich and Parham as half hundreds and Samford as a hundred and a half.
[ Hoxne hundred was then known as Bishops hundred][Open Domesday: Bishop's Hundred]
accessed February 2020. and the vills which were included later in Thredling hundred were within Claydon hundred.[
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List of hundreds (1831)
In addition the county contained three boroughs, corresponding to the county's largest towns:
See also
*History of Suffolk
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...
*List of hundreds of England and Wales
Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds or wapentakes from the late Anglo-Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century.
In Wales a similar Celtic sy ...
References
{{Hundreds of Suffolk
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 ...