Map of the Hundred of Little and Lesnes and the Hundred of Dartford and Wilmington by Edward Hasted published, by W Bristow Canterbury (1778 and 1797) included in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (1778–99) (Hasted)
Area
• 1831
10,410 acres (42 km2)[1]
• 1831
10,410 acres (42 km2)
Population
• 1086
? (153 households)[2]
• 1831
6,699[3]
History
• Created
Ancient (before 1086)[2]
• Abolished
1876-1894 (obsolete) [4]
• Succeeded by
Plumstead and East Wickham: County of London (1889) [4] and Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich (1900) [4][5] then London Borough of Greenwich (1965) Erith: Municipal Borough of Erith (1876) [4][6] then London Borough of Bexley (1965) Crayford: Dartford Rural District (1894) then Crayford Urban District (1920) then London Borough of Bexley (1965)
Status
Obsolete
Government
Hundred
• HQ
Lesnes Heath[7]
History
• Established
1086
• Disestablished
1876
Subdivisions
• Type
Parishes
• Units
Crayford, East Wickham*, Erith, Plumstead,[8][9] (*Before 1854 East Wickham was part of Plumstead parish[10][11])
Little and Lesnes was a hundred, a historical land division, in the county of Kent, England.[2][4][8][9][12] It occupied the northern part of the Lathe of Sutton-at-Hone,[8] within in the west division of Kent. Little and Lesnes was the northernmost hundred in the whole county of Kent.[8] The hundred existed since ancient times, before the Domesday Book of 1086,[2] until it was made obsolete with the creation of new districts at the end of the nineteenth century.[4]
Today the area that was the Hundred of Little and Lesnes is suburban London, covering the northeast corner of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the northern part of the London Borough of Bexley, with the River Thames to the north, and Watling Street to the south; and roughly centred on the area of Abbey Wood.[8][13][14] Little and Lesnes Hundred was approximately, 4 miles (6.5 km) across north to south, and about 7 miles (11.25 km) wide east to west.[8][9]
^Area of Lessness Hundred recorded in the 1831 Great Britain census accessed from Visionofbritain.org.uk
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^ abcdefHistory of Kent, by Frank Jessup, 1958
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^"Erith". Archives and Local History. London Borough of Bexley. Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
^An Historical Atlas of Kent, edited by Terence Lawrence & David Killingray (2004) ISBN 1-86077-255-2 - Map and description of meeting places & hundreds p. 30
^ abcdefAn Historical Atlas of Kent, edited by Terence Lawrence & David Killingray (2004) ISBN 1-86077-255-2 - Maps front cover and back cover inlay
^ abcMap of the Hundred of Little and Lesnes and the Hundred of Dartford and Wilmington by Edward Hasted published, by W Bristow Canterbury (1778 and 1797) included in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (1778–99) (Hasted) accessed from [1]
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^Nicholson Greater London Street Atlas Comprehensive Edition (2003) pp. 145-147 + 165-167 ISBN 0-583-33291-9 shows present district boundaries
^Abbey Wood area map accessed from Streetmap.co.uk showing modern administrative boundaries
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