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The hundred of Berkeley was one of the ancient hundreds of Gloucestershire, England. Hundreds originated in the late Saxon period as a subdivision of a county and lasted as administrative divisions until the 19th century.[1]

Berkeley Hundred was divided into two separate parts, the Lower Division and the Upper Division.

The Lower Division consisted of several detached parts, including the ancient parishes of

  • Elberton
  • Filton
  • Hill
  • Horfield
  • Almondsbury (part)
  • Henbury (part)

The Upper Division consisted of the parishes of

  • Arlingham (a detached part of the hundred, separated from the rest of the hundred by the hundred of Whitstone)
  • Ashleworth
  • Berkeley
  • Beverston
  • Cam
  • Coaley
  • Cromhall Abbotts
  • Dursley
  • Kingscote
  • Newington Bagpath
  • North Nibley
  • Nympsfield
  • Owlpen
  • Ozleworth
  • Slimbridge
  • Stinchcombe
  • Uley
  • Wotton-under-Edge
  • Rockhampton (part)

The meeting place was at Berkeley.

  1. ^ Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice (1906). English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: the parish and the county. London: Longmans Green and Company. pp. 284–285.

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