Babergh 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 ...

of Suffolk, consisting of . Its name survives in that of

Babergh District Babergh District (pronounced , ) is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Primarily a rural area, Babergh contains two towns of notable size: Sudbury, and Hadleigh, which was the administrative centre until 2017. Its council headquar ...

, the

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of southern Suffolk that includes the former hundred as well as those of Cosford and Samford. It consisted of the land to the north, east and south east of Sudbury, the hundred's largest town, and its southern boundary forms the border with

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. The majority of the land is rural. It was listed as ''Baberga'' in the

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and the name is believed to mean "Mound of a man called Babba". The name derives from Babergh Heath, an area of land around the villages of Great and Little Waldingfield. The village of

Great Waldingfield Great Waldingfield is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England about two miles (3 km) north-east of Sudbury and two miles (3 km) south-west of its sister village, Little Waldingfield. The village is spli ...

is home to Babergh Hall, the ancient meeting place of the hundred.

Parishes

Babergh Hundred consisted of the following 33 parishes:1841 Census

References

{{Authority control Hundreds of Suffolk Babergh Hundred