Place:Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred, Dorset, England

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NameBeaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred
TypeHundred
Coordinates50.81°N 2.741°W
Located inDorset, England

Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred was a hundred in the northwest of the county of Dorset, England. The list of parishes below is taken from A Vision of Britain through Time which separates Beaminster Forum & Redhone Hundred from Beaminster Hundred as does the map described below. Wikipedia lists both hundreds under Beaminster Forum & Redhone Hundred.

A Vision of Britain through Time includes the following note:

"The 1801 and 1831 censuses list a single hundred, 'Beaminster and Redhone'. However, Youngs' listing of two deparate [sic] hundeds, 'Beaminster' and 'Beaminster Forum and Redhone', is supported by other sources including the 14th century Poll Taz (see C. Fenwick, The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, vol. 1 (OUP, 1998))."

A map of "the ancient county of Dorset in 1834, showing the Liberties, Hundreds and Boroughs" is to be found in Wikimedia. Unfortunately the print is too small to make it worthwhile reproducing the map here. Many of the hundreds had detached parts.

Parishes

Parish Description Notes
Bradpole ancient parish, civil parish
Mapperton ancient parish, civil parish
Mosterton chapelry, civil parish
North Poorton ancient parish, civil parish
South Perrott ancient parish, civil parish
Toller Porcorum ancient parish, civil parish


From Wikipedia

"A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, South Australia and some parts of the United States, to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions; similar divisions were made in Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Norway."

Hundreds were replaced by Registration Districts or Poor Law Unions between 1837 and 1850, and then by Rural and Urban Districts and Municipal Boroughs in 1894.