On Wed, 23 May 2007, Fig wrote:

On Sat, 19 May 2007 18:26:09 +0100, Ian Jelf
wrote:

In message , Tom Anderson
writes
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Ian Jelf wrote:

Ossulstone was the name of the "Hundred"

("Hundreds" were the ancient subdivisions of counties and usually had
names which are totally lost today. Birmingham was in "Hemlingford,
for examples, much of South Staffordshire "Offlow" and so on.)

Where i grew up, the water board was Tendring Hundred Water, so i am well
familiar with the term. I wonder how many other things named after
hundreds are still around?

Ones that spring to mind as place names in everyday use which were
originally Hundreds a

Wirral (Cheshire)
High Peak (Derbyshire)
Becontree (Essex)

there are bound to be others.

Brixton, Godalming, Edmonton, Isleworth, Kingston, Elthorne (as in
'Hanwell & Elthorne' station on the Great Western line) to name just a
few local ones.

How many of these are names that initially came from settlements? Tendring
is - there's a village called Tendring roughly in the middle of the
hundred. If there's an actual settlement with the name, then i think it's
cheating to claim that the modern name is a surviving hundred name.

Anyway, i was after cases where the "hundred" part was still in use, like
Tendring Hundred Water. My mum came up with the Chiltern Hundreds when i
mentioned this to her earlier. Multimap doesn't seem to think there are
any in use as placenames. Anyone got any others?

tom

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Me ant a frend try'd to WALK the hole unterrgrand but was putting off -
sometime we saw a trane! -- Viddler Sellboe