Thursday 27 November 2014

Stonehenge and Underditch Hundred

A small curiosity: the ancient divisions of England, the hundreds seem not to respect natural or man made features when it cam to their boundaries. An example is the hundred of Underditch which used to contain Stonehenge.

Drawn up as they were before maps I always imagine they were described as "from this rock to that hill" etc, but maybe not.
  
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The red lines denote the hundred boundaries - taken from Andrews' and Drury's Map of Wiltshire 1773 - Underditch Hundred runs up from the lower right.


More on the hundred of Underditch: Introduction', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 195-198. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41810




1 comment:

  1. Another excellent map showing the evidence of 'post glacial flooding' and Stonehenge as a peninsula - well done Tim! If I didn't know better I would suggest you're a secret convert?

    RJL

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