Place:Nassaborough Hundred, Northamptonshire, England

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NameNassaborough Hundred
Alt namesNassaburgh Hundred/Libertysource: another spelling
TypeHundred, Liberty (parochial)
Located inNorthamptonshire, England

Nassaborough Hundred (or Liberty) includes the City of Peterborough and its surrounding area. It became the Soke of Peterborough and was a separate administrative county under that name from 1889 until 1965. It then merged with the county of Huntingdonshire (to its south) and in 1974 became a unitary authority named the Peterborough District within the county of Cambridgeshire.

PETERBOROUGH, or Nassaburgh, a hundred in the N E of Northampton; containing Peterborough parish, twenty-five other parishes, and part of another. Acres: 49,525. Population in 1851: 18,347; in 1861: 21,287. Houses: 4,404. (962930)

  • Nassaborough Hundred is not covered by the Victoria County History of Northamptonshire.
  • For another map of the hundreds of of Northamptonshire, see A Vision of Britain through Time.
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List of Parishes

ParishDescriptionNotes
Ailsworth hamlet, civil parish
Ashton by Bainton hamlet, civil parish
Bainton chapelry, civil parish
Barnack ancient parish, civil parish
Borough Fen extra parochial area, civil parish
Castor ancient parish, civil parish
Deeping Gate hamlet, civil parish
Etton ancient parish, civil parish
Eye ancient parish, civil parish
Glinton chapelry, civil parish
Gunthorpe hamlet, civil parish in the parish of Paston
Helpston ancient parish, civil parish
Marholm ancient parish, civil parish
Maxey ancient parish, civil parish
Newborough ancient parish, civil parish
Northborough ancient parish, civil parish
Paston ancient parish, civil parish
Peakirk ancient parish, civil parish
Peterborough ancient parish, civil parish
Pilsgate hamlet, civil parish redirected to Barnack
Southorpe hamlet, civil parish redirected to Barnack
Stamford Baron ancient parish, civil parish
Sutton chapelry, civil parish
Thornhaugh ancient parish, civil parish
Ufford ancient parish, civil parish
Upton (near Castor) chapelry, civil parish
Walton (Peterborough) hamlet, civil parish hamlet in Paston parish
Wansford chapelry, civil parish
Werrington chapelry, civil parish chapelry in Paston parish
Wittering ancient parish, civil parish
Wothorpe hamlet, ancient parish, civil parish