Place:Pyder Hundred, Cornwall, England

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NamePyder Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inCornwall, England

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."

In England hundreds were replaced by Registration Districts, Poor Law Unions and urban and rural sanitary districts between 1837 and 1850, and then by Rural and Urban Districts and Municipal Boroughs in 1895. In 1974 the districts and boroughs were abolished and today Cornwall is a unitary authority.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Pyder from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"PYDER, a hundred in the centre of Cornwall; containing the two parishes of St. Colomb and 19 other parishes. Acres: 106,788. Population in 1851: 28,791; in 1861: 27,978. Houses: 5,828."
"Pydar (or Pyder) has been variously explained: perhaps it derives from a Cornish word meaning 'a fourth part'.

The map of the Hundreds of Cornwall is titled in English and Cornish. The Cornish language is still spoken today by a small proportion of Cornish residents. (Map source: Wikipedia)

Image:Kernow Hundreds 50.png

List of Parishes

ParishTypeNotes
Colan parish (ancient), civil parish
Crantock parish (ancient), civil parish
Cubert parish (ancient), civil parish
Lanhydrock parish (ancient), civil parish
Lanivet parish (ancient), civil parish
Little Petherick parish (ancient), civil parish
Mawgan in Pyder parish (ancient), civil parish
Newlyn parish (ancient), civil parish
Padstow parish (ancient), civil parish
Perranzabuloe parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Agnes chapelry, civil parish
St. Breock parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Columb Major parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Columb Minor parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Enoder parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Ervan parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Eval parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Issey parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Merryn parish (ancient), civil parish
St. Wenn parish (ancient), civil parish
Withiel parish (ancient), civil parish
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