Cranborne Hundred Explained

Cranborne Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:

• Ashmore
• Belchalwell (divided between Okeford Fitzpaine and Fifehead Neville 1884)
• Cranborne (part)
• East Woodyates (created 1858)
• Edmondsham (part)
• Farnham
• Hampreston (part; entire from the 1860s, when the other part was transferred from Hampshire)
• Pentridge
• Shillingstone
• Tarrant Gunville
• Tarrant Rushton
• Tollard Royal (divided between Dorset and Wiltshire until the 1880s, when the Dorset part was transferred to Wiltshire)
• Turnworth
• West Parley
• Witchampton

(Alderholt and Verwood were created from Cranborne in 1894)

See also

• List of hundreds in Dorset

Sources

• Boswell, Edward, 1833: The Civil Division of the County of Dorset (published on CD by Archive CD Books Ltd, 1992)
• Hutchins, John, History of Dorset, vols 1-4 (3rd ed 1861–70; reprinted by EP Publishing, Wakefield, 1973)
• Mills, A. D., 1977, 1980, 1989: Place Names of Dorset, parts 1–3. English Place Name Society: Survey of English Place Names vols LII, LIII and 59/60