Place:Hartland Hundred, Devon, England

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NameHartland Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inDevon, England
Hartland Hundred was located in the very northwest corner of Devon where to the north and west the Bristol Channel becomes the Atlantic Ocean. It is #14 on the map.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Hartland Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"HARTLAND, a village, a parish, a [registration] sub-district, and a hundred in Devon....The hundred contains the same four parishes as the sub-district, includes another parish, and excludes the extra-parochial tract. Acres: 31,718. Population: 4,197. Houses: 882."

GENUKI provides a longer description from White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire of 1850.

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Parishes

Parish Description Notes
Clovelly parish (ancient), civil parish
Hartland parish (ancient), civil parish
Wellcombe parish (ancient), civil parish
Woolfardisworthy (Torridge) parish (ancient), civil parish
Yarnscombe parish (ancient), civil parish