Cheshire Hundreds

Date: Before 11 Dec 2021 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Hundreds Doomsday_Book

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When the "Doomsday Book" was written there were twelve hundreds in Cheshire:

• Atticros;
• Erestan;
• Chester;
• Wilaweston;
• Dudestan;
• Warmundestreau;
• Riseton;
• Roelay;
• Mildestric or Mildest-vich;
• Hamastan;
• Bucklow or Bochelau; and
• Tunendon.

These were later reduced to seven:

• Bucklow (East Division) which included Tunendon (West Division);
• Maxfield was Hamastan;
• Northwich was Mildestric or Mildest-vich;
• Nantwich was Warmundestreau;
• Broxton was Dudestan;
• Edesbury was Riseton and Roelay; and
• Wirrhall was Wilaweston.

In 21 Henry VII [1506] the City of Chester became a distinct Hundred.

In 33 Henry VIII, the towns of Attiscross and Erestan hundreds, apart from Dodleston in Broxton Hundred, were annexed to Flintshire.

Sources: Ormerod, George, eds. Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester and