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.

Westminster Hundred

Hundred in the County of Gloucestershire

Historical Forms

  • Hundredum de Westmonasterio 1303 FA 1378 Works
  • Hundredum Westmonasterii, Libertatis Westmonasterii 1316 FA 1327 SR
  • Westm', Hundred' de Westm' 1320,1361 Ass
  • hundred' de Westmenstr' 1387 Works
  • hundred of Westminster 1403 Pat 1542 LP

Etymology

Named from Westminster Abbey (v. supra , Anderson 9, Mx 165).

Parishes in this Hundred