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| Roborough Hundred covered the City of Plymouth and the area which surrounded it, most of which has now been amalgamated into the city. Some parishes on the southeast slopes of Dartmoor were also included. A map of all the hundreds of Devon is available on other pages introducing the county's hundreds. Here it has been replaced by a map of the "electoral wards" of Plymouth in use today. Many are equivalent to the parishes of a century or two ago.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Roborough Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "ROBOROUGH, a down and a hundred in the S W of Devon. The down is on the border of the county, 6 miles N by E of Plymouth; and has a place of its own name, with a post-office under Plymouth. The hundred contains 12 parishes and parts of 3 others. Acres: 58,201. Pop. in 1851: 25,164; in 1861: 27,803. Houses: 3,831."
GENUKI provides a longer description from White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire of 1850.
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Map from Wikimedia Commons with electoral wards labelled by presenter.
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Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Bere Ferrers | ancient parish, civil parish | now in West Devon District
| | Bickleigh (near Plymouth) | ancient parish, civil parish | now in South Hams District
| | Buckland Monachorum | ancient parish, civil parish | now in West Devon District
| | Compton Gifford | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Devonport | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | East Stonehouse | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Egg Buckland | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Laira Green | extra parochial area, civil parish |
| | Maker | ancient parish, civil parish | now Maker with Rame in Cornwall
| | Meavy | ancient parish, civil parish | now in West Devon District
| | North Tamerton | ancient parish, civil parish | in Cornwall
| | Pennycross | chapelry, civil parish | now Weston Peverell
| | Peter Tavy | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Plymouth | civil parish |
| | Plymouth Charles | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Plymouth in 1898
| | Plymouth St. Andrew | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Plymouth in 1898
| | Sampford Spiney | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Sheepstor | chapelry, civil parish |
| | St. Budeaux | chapelry, civil parish |
| | St. John | ancient parish, civil parish | in Cornwall
| | St. Stephen's by Saltash | ancient parish, civil parish | in Cornwall
| | Tamerton Foliot | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Walkhampton | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Whitchurch | ancient parish, civil parish |
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