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Winfrith Hundred

Hundred in the County of Dorset

Historical Forms

  • Winfrode hundret c.1086 GeldR
  • hundredum de Winfrod(e), hundredum de Wyn(e)frod(e) 1130 PR 1195 P 1204 Cur 1212 Fees 1288 Ass
  • Windfrodhundredum 1178 P
  • Winfrodhundr' 1189 1196 ChancR
  • hundredum de Wilfro(r)d 1194,1195 P
  • 'Foreign Hundred of Winfrod' 1265 Misc
  • the manor of Wynford with the inhundred (hundredo intrinseco) and the foreign hundred' 1269 Ch
  • Celberge hundret c.1086 GeldR
  • Lib' Abbatis de Bynedon 1280 Ass
  • Libertas de Bynedon(e) 1327 SR 1332 SR
  • hd of Bynedon 1337,1354 Pat
  • Bindon Libertye 1664 HTax
  • Liberty of Bindon 1682 Weld1

Etymology

Named from Winfrith Newburgh par. infra which was the caput of the hundred and to which it was annexed (Anderson 120–1).