English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Cirencester Hundred

Domesday Hundred in the County of Gloucestershire

Historical Forms

  • Cirecestre hd' 1086 DB 1169,1177 P 1221 Ass
  • hund' de Cirencestr(e), Cyrencestr(e), hund' de Cyrencestria 1175 P 1220 Fees 1221 Ass 1274 RH 1587 FF
  • Hund' de Cirincestr' 1221 Ass
  • Hund' de Cyrnescestr' 1248 Ass
  • Circestre 1330 Ipm

Parishes in this Domesday Hundred

Domesday Hundred