Toltingtrough (or Toltingtrow) was a hundred in the

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in the county of Kent, England. This hundred is called, in some ancient writings, Toltetern and Tollentr, and in Domesday, Tollentru. In the return made of the several knights fees throughout England, by inquisition into the exchequer, in the 7th year of king

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, the

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appears to have been then lord of this Hundred. In the 20th year of king

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, on the levying 40 shillings on every knight's fee, this Hundred answered for four knights fees and a half.See The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 1, author:Edward Hasted, publ. 1797 The hundred included the parishes of *

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* Ifield *

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The town of

was incorporated during the reign of Elizabeth I and encompassed the parishes of Gravesend and Milton. Milton civil parish was abolished in 1915. Nurstead and Ifield civil parishes were abolished in 1935, when they were incorporated into Cobham. The

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created in 1974 contains the same area, plus Chalk, Higham, Shorne and Cobham. The importance of the hundred courts declined from the 17th century, and most of their powers were extinguished with the establishment of county courts in 1867. In 1894 the Hundred was succeeded by

Strood Rural District Strood Rural District was a rural district in the county of Kent, England. It was subject to boundary reforms in 1934 and 1935. It consisted of the following civil parishes:http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10074137&c_id ...

, the Urban District of

and the municipal borough of

. The area and population of each parish and the totals for the Hundred were as follows:Victoria County History of Kent Vol 3, p. 367, publ.1932, ed William Page,

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{{reflist Gravesham Hundreds of Kent