The Hundred of Wotton, Wotton Hundred or Dorking Hundred was a

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. 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 Surrey,

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. The hundred comprised a south-central portion of the county, clockwise the parishes of Abinger, Wotton, Dorking, Capel and Ockley. The area's owner initially had pecuniary rights (to incomes) over parts of parishes on the borders of the area and just beyond, from just north of Guildford to Sussex. The site of the

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is indicated in the later medieval records as Dorking, hence its latter alternative name. What vestiges of rights to minor rents and other such rights in the hundred still remained in the 17th century were granted to Sir Edward Zouche in 1620 by

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, and later passed to the Earls of Onslow, heirs to the estates of the

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. Subsequent large village-size settlements within this area include the three Holmwoods collectively and

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. The majority of it today, which is farmland or woodland, is

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. The largest current settlement in the area is Dorking

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