| LC control no. | n 2021068626 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Ewelme Hundred (England) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | England--Ewelme Hundred |
| Variant(s) | Bensington Hundred (England) Benson Hundred (England) Ewelme Half-Hundred (England) Hundred of Ewelme (England) |
| Found in | Peasant perceptions of landscape, 2021: title page (Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire) page 2, etc. (former hundred of Ewelme in south Oxfordshire; comprised fourteen parishes, more than 10,000 hectares of land; established before Domesday (1086), when it belonged to the royal estate of Benson; from the 13th century known as Ewelme hundred; Historical account of the hundreds of Chiltern in Oxfordshire, 1890: page 4 (Eight Hundreds altogether, five in Oxfordshire and three in Bucks, are known as the “Chiltern Hundreds;” Geographically united, they were separated as regards their history, most likely when the shires of Buckingham and Oxford were formed; The Oxfordshire Hundreds contain about 107,980 acres, and are bounded by the Thames from Shillingford to Henley, on the east by the county of Buckingham, and on the north and west by the Hun- dreds of Thame and Dorchester; Their names are Pirton, Lewknor, Binfield, Langtree, and Ewelme; The last mentioned, which in Domesday goes by the name of Bensington, is called a Half- Hundred, in consequence, probably, of the exemption of the King's tun of Benson from the Hundred jurisdiction, The district shared the fortunes of its chief place) British History online, viewed December 16, 2021 Ewelme Hundred (Benson hundred was established by 1086, when it belonged, with the other four 'Chiltern hundreds', to the Benson royal estate. By then it was already designated (and remained) a 'half hundred', comprising an area of some 25,096 acres; The name Ewelme hundred was substituted piecemeal from the 1230s, reflecting Benson's decline as a royal and administrative centre and, almost certainly, the location of the ancient hundredal meeting place within what was by then the separate lordship and parish of Ewelme) |
| Not found in | NGA GeoNames; Col. lip. gaz. Web. geo. |
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