Hinckford Hundred
Hundred in the County of Essex
Historical Forms
- Hidincfort, Hidincforda, Hiding(a)forda, Hiding(a)fort, Hiding(h)afort, Hidingh(e)forda, Hidingeforda, Hedingfort 1086 DB
- Hengham 1161–2 P 1198 Cur 1264 Misc 1285 Ipm
- Haingeford, He(y)ing(e)ford 1167–90 P 1185 RotDom 1219 Fees 1235 Ass
- Haingesford 1167 ChancR
- Heng(e)ford 1190 P 1235–55 Ass 1238 SR 1280 Ipm 1346 FA
- Hainford 1259 Ipm
- Hynkford p.1420 FA
- hundred de Hynham 1470 MinAcct
- hundred-and-a-half in 1176 (P)
Etymology
For the etymology v. Hedingham infra 439. The meeting- place of the hundred was at Crouch Green in Castle Hedingham, infra 439–40, earlier Motstowe , 'meeting-place,' where was the ford from which the hundred took its name. v. EAS xviii, 185–6, 294, xix, 62. Called a hundred-and -a-half in 1176 (P).
Parishes in this Hundred
Parish
- Alphamstone
- Ashen
- Ballingdon cum Brundon
- Belchamp Otton, St Paul's, Walter
- Belchamp Otton
- Belchamp St Paul's
- Belchamp Walter
- Birdbrook
- Bocking
- Borley
- Bulmer
- Bures
- Castle and Sible Hedingham
- Castle Hedingham
- Felsted
- Finchingfield
- Foxearth
- Gestingthorpe
- Great Henny
- Great Maplestead
- Great Saling
- Great Yeldham
- Halstead Rural
- Halstead Urban
- Liston
- Little Henny
- Little Maplestead
- Little Yeldham
- Braintree
- Gosfield
- Great and Bardfield Saling
- Great and Little Henny
- Great and Little Maplestead
- Great and Little Yeldham
- Middleton
- Northwood
- Ovington
- Panfield
- Pebmarsh
- Pentlow
- Rayne
- Ridgewell
- Shalford
- Sible Hedingham
- Stambourne
- Stebbing
- Steeple Bumpstead
- Stisted
- Sturmer
- Tilbury-juxta-Clare
- Toppesfield
- Twinstead
- Wethersfield
- Wickham St Paul's
- Lamarsh