Isleworth Hundred was a

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of the historic county of

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. In ''

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'' (1086) it was recorded as ''Hundeslaw Hundred'' ("

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Hundred" in modern spelling). It contained three parishes, whose acreage and square miles area is given as at the 1870s-1880s: In 1801 Middlesex measured 734 km². This, the smallest of the county's six hundreds, amounted to 5% of that area. The hundred's name means 'enclosure of Gislhere'. All of the above area in earliest records was exceptionally part of one manor, that of Isleworth based at

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. The ownership separated in the middle of the medieval centuries; that of Heston was inherited from marriage of the daughter of Francis Child by the

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(with the Childs-Villier and later Villier surname) until the 20th century seated at the house built by Child employing

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in the north-east of Isleworth parish. The others two main manors fell into the hands of the

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(with the surname Percy) who took over the abbey's demense and built

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in the east of in Isleworth. The Domesday Book of 1086 names the unit (in its heavily abbreviated fusion of Latin and French) Hounslow Hundred, a term never found again.

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to the south-west was stated to be under Hounslow

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at that date. In the many Feet of Fines,

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, subsidy rolls and other central government and manorial court documents, save for a similar reference to Isleworth Hundred in a charter of the 12th century, Hampton is listed as unequivocally part of

Spelthorne Hundred Spelthorne was a hundred (dated subdivision) of the historic county of Middlesex, England. It contained these parishes and settlements: * Ashford *East Bedfont **The hamlet of Hatton *Feltham *Hampton **The settlement of Hampton Hill developed ...

. This is explained by the abbey's and then the Percy family's holdings there. Further named clusters of buildings (sometimes termed

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) emerged during its relevant currency: *

which was from the 16th century straddled the divide between the first-two named parishes. * Whitton in the parish of Twickenham *North Hyde in the parish of Heston *Sutton in the parish of Heston *Lampton in the parish of Heston *Worton in the parish of Isleworth *Wyke in the parish of Isleworth *Scrattage (now part of Osterley) in the parish of Heston

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