Underditch Hundred
Underditch Hundred was a judicial and taxation subdivision of the English county of Wiltshire that existed from the about the 8th century[1] to the 19th century.
The hundred contained the parishes of Salisbury, Stratford-sub-Castle, Durnford, Woodford and Wilsford cum Lake.[2]
It was named after the meeting place where the court was originally held, in Durnford, which was recorded in a mid-tenth-century charter as windryðe dic.[3]
The hundred was held by the Bishop of Salisbury at the time of Domesday in 1086 and consisted of 70 hides.[2]
References
- ^ Draper, Simon Andrew (2004) Landscape, settlement and society: Wiltshire in the 1st millennium AD, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3064/ p116
- ^ a b 'The hundred of Underditch: Introduction', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1962), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp195-198 [accessed 9 January 2026].
- ^ John Baker & Stuart Brookes. (2015) Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England. Journal of Field Archaeology 40:1, pages 3-21.