Toltingtrough (or Toltingtrow) was a
hundred
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In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...
in the
Lathe of
Aylesford in the
county
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of
Kent
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,
England
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. 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
Edward I, the
archbishop of Canterbury appears to have been then lord of this Hundred.
In the 20th year of king
Edward III, 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
*
Gravesend
*
Ifield
*
Luddesdown
*
Meopham
*
Milton
*
Northfleet
*
Nurstead
The town of
Gravesend &
Milton was incorporated during the reign of
Elizabeth I
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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
Borough of Gravesham 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, the Urban District of
Northfleet and the municipal borough of
Gravesend.
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,]
Notes
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