Underditch Hundred

Hundreds of Wiltshire in 1832

Underditch Hundred was a judicial and taxation subdivision of the English county of Wiltshire that existed from the about the 8th century to the 19th century.

The hundred contained the parishes of Salisbury, Stratford-sub-Castle, Durnford, Woodford and Wilsford cum Lake.

It was named after the meeting place where the court was originally held, in Durnford, which was recorded in a mid-tenth-century charter as windryðe dic.

The hundred was held by the Bishop of Salisbury at the time of Domesday in 1086 and consisted of 70 hides.

References

  1. ↑ Draper, Simon Andrew (2004). Landscape, settlement and society: Wiltshire in the first millennium AD (Doctoral thesis). Durham University.
  2. 1 2 "The hundred of Underditch: Introduction | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
  3. ↑ John Baker & Stuart Brookes. (2015) Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England. Journal of Field Archaeology 40:1, pages 3-21.