Bledisloe Hundred

It comprised the ancient parishes of The hundred was originally part of the Cantref Coch, an ancient Welsh land division (cantrefi) but became known as Blideslow and Blideslau in English.

Once a tithing of the parish of Awre and now a hamlet north of Lydney on the A48 road, where the hundred met.

The second element clearly derives from the Old English "-hlǣw" meaning tumulus, burial mound or barrow.

[4] At the time of the Domesday Book the hundred included Awre manor, Bledisloe, Etloe, Purton and Nass.

Alvington (previously a detached part of Herefordshire) and Lydney joined the hundred by 1221.