Northstow Hundred
Hundred in the County of Cambridgeshire
Historical Forms
- Nordstouua 1086 ICC
- Nordstou(u)e 1086 InqEl
- Nordstow(e), Nordstowa 1168–99 P 1279 RH
- Northsto(u)we 1170 P 1482 Pat
- Nortstou 1086 InqEl
- Nortsto(u)we 1218 SR 1268 Ass 1279 RH
- Norestov 1086 DB
- Norstowe 1086 InqEl
- Nor(e)stowe 1185 RotDom 1268 Ass 1444 Colexii
- Orneston 1086 DB
- Norston 1200 P
- Northston 1236 Barnwell
- Nortstowe 13th StJohn's
Etymology
'North stōw,' i.e. probably 'north meeting-place.' North to distinguish this from Longstow supra 154. The hundred is probably named from (half an acre in) Nortstowe 13thStJohn 's in Dry Drayton, a parish which forms a narrow, elongated projection of Chesterton Hundred into Northstow.