Clavering hundred was a hundred – or geographical subdivision – comprising parishes and settlements in Essex and Norfolk.[1] Hundreds were divisions of areas of land within shires or counties for administrative and judicial purposes – and for the collection of taxes.[2]
In the Domesday Book of 1086, there were 27 places listed as part of the hundred. The two largest settlements within the hundred were Raveningham, with 115.5 households - according to the Domesday Book - and Clavering, with 80 households. Clavering had the largest taxable value within the hundred.[3]
Locations in Essex edit
- Bentfield Bury
- Berden
- Bollington Hall
- Clavering
- Farnham
- Manuden
- Peyton Hall
- Pinchpools
- Ugley
- Pledgdon Hall
Locations in Norfolk edit
- Aldeby
- Ellingham
- Gillingham
- Haddiscoe
- Hales
- Heckingham
- Kirby Cane
- Norton Subcourse
- Raveningham
- Stockton
- Thurlton
- Toft Monks
- Wheatacre
Four further Clavering hundred settlements in Norfolk - Ierpestuna, Naruestuna, Thurketeliart and Torvestuna - are also mentioned in the Domesday Book, however these names no longer exist and the sites can only be located approximately.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Hundred of Clavering | Domesday Book". Domesdaymap.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ^ "Administrative Units Typology | Status definition: Hundred". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ^ "Clavering | Domesday Book". Domesdaymap.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2013.