LL-L: "Vocabulary" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 01.JUN.1999 (04)

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From: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: LL-L: "Vocabulary" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 01.JUN.1999 (02)

> From: Angelika Voss <egse at zetnet.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: LL-L: "Vocabulary" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 27.APR.1999 (03)
>
> Ted Harding wrote
>> In England, "Hundred" in this sense has been obsolete for some time,
>> with one exception.
>
>> The exceptional non-obsolete instance of the Hundred in England is the
>> case of the Chiltern Hundreds, a district of Buckinghamshire
>> (consisting of the Hundreds of Stoke, Burnham and Desborough). This
>> serves one purpose only.
>
> That's not the only one. I live on the Tendring Peninsula in North-East
> Essex. I pay my water rates to the Tendring Hundred Water Company, and
> our annual agricultural fair is called the Tendring Hundred Show.  My
> local authority, however, is just called Tendring District Council,
> without the "Hundred".

Amazing! I'd never suspeced this one. Yet it's clearly an extensive area.
Not only that, a Web Search on "Tendring Hundred" throws up 469,220 hits!
It seems an interesting area from the point of view of water quality ...

Tried poking around on history. There are several references to "Tendring
Hundred" in

  http://www.utoronto.ca/deeds/pubs/doc3/notes.htm

which are notes to

  http://www.utoronto.ca/deeds/pubs/doc3/

entitled "The textile industry in Essex in the late 12th and 13th
centuries: A study based on occupational names in charter sources"
by Michael Gervers

Many of the refs to TH are to the Domesday book.

Thanks for this pointer.
Ted.

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