Rapsgate Hundred
Hundred in the County of Gloucestershire
Historical Forms
- Respegete hundredum 11 Heming
- Respiget(e), Respiet hvnd' 1086 DB
- Respiate hdr' 1168 P
- hundred' de Respeʒat(e) 13 Glouc
- Respegate 1221 Ass 1276 RH 1285 FA 1587 FF
- Resperegate 1220 Fees
- Repsgate 1221 Ass
- Reppesgate 1316 FA
- Rapesgate 1535 VE
- Resputte (sic) 1248 Ass
- Ryspegete 1276 RH
Etymology
The hundred takes its name from Rapsgate in Colesborne 155infra (grid 144–994110); in 1400 the hundred court was held at a bush near Marsden which is close to Rapsgate (cf. BG ix, 333).