[[File:Underditch Hundred – Wiltshire.svg|thumb|Hundreds of Wiltshire in 1832]]
[[File:Wiltshire1832 Map.png|thumb|right|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<ref>Draper, Simon Andrew (2004) Landscape, settlement and society: Wiltshire in the 1st millennium AD, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3064/ p116</ref> to the 19th century.
”’Underditch Hundred”’ was a judicial and taxation subdivision of the English county of [[Wiltshire]] that existed from the about the 8th century<ref>Draper, Simon Andrew (2004) Landscape, settlement and society: Wiltshire in the 1st millennium AD, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3064/ p116</ref> to the 19th century.
The hundred contained the parishes of [[Salisbury]], [[Stratford-sub-Castle]], [[Durnford, Wiltshire|Durnford]], [[Woodford, Wiltshire|Woodford]] and [[Wilsford cum Lake]]. It was named after the meeting place where the court was originally held, a ditch which ran eastwards uphill from the Avon to the Salisbury-Amesbury road.<ref>BHO</ref>
The hundred contained the parishes of [[Salisbury]], [[Stratford-sub-Castle]], [[Durnford, Wiltshire|Durnford]], [[Woodford, Wiltshire|Woodford]] and [[Wilsford cum Lake]]. It was named after the meeting place where the court was originally held, a ditch which ran eastwards uphill from the Avon to the Salisbury-Amesbury road.<ref>BHO</ref>
Underditch Hundred was a judicial and taxation subdivision of the English county of Wiltshire that existed from the about the 8th century[1] 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, a ditch which ran eastwards uphill from the Avon to the Salisbury-Amesbury road.[2]
The hundred was held by the Bishop of Salisbury at the time of Domesday in 1086 and consisted of 70 hides.[3]
- ^ Draper, Simon Andrew (2004) Landscape, settlement and society: Wiltshire in the 1st millennium AD, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3064/ p116
- ^ BHO
- ^ ‘The hundred of Underditch: Introduction’, in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1962), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp195-198 [accessed 9 January 2026].
