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| Name | Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred |
| Alt names | Whitechurch Canonicorum Hundred | source: Wikipedia |
| Type | Hundred |
| Coordinates | 50.752°N 2.864°W |
| Located in | Dorset, England |
Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred or Whitechurch Canonicorum Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England.
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
| | Axminster | ancient parish, civil parish | the part of the borough which was in Dorset
| | Bridport | ancient parish, civil parish | a borough within the hundred
| | Burstock | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Catherston Leweston | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Charmouth | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Chideock | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Lyme Regis | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Marshwood | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Pilsdon | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Stanton St Gabriel | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Stockland | ancient parish, civil parish | part, i.e., Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844
| | Symondsbury | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Thorncombe | ancient parish, civil parish | transferred to Devon 1844 and back to Dorset 1896 | | Whitchurch Canonicorum | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Wootton Fitzpaine | ancient parish, civil parish |
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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.
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