Place:Bere Regis Hundred, Dorset, England

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NameBere Regis Hundred
TypeHundred
Coordinates50.772°N 2.201°W
Located inDorset, England

Bere Regis Hundred was a small hundred in the southern part of the county of Dorset, England, inland from the English Channel.

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
Bere Regis ancient parish, civil parish
Milborne Stileham hamlet, tything, civil parish created as a civil parish from Winterborne Kingston and part of Bere Regis in 1866
Winterborne Kingston chapelry, civil parish until 1866


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.