Hoxne Hundred

[1] Hoxne Hundred was a fertile district averaging about nine miles (14 km) in length and breadth.

The parishes of Carlton and Kelsale form a detached region to the south east of the hundred.

It falls into the Deanery of Hoxne, the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and the Diocese of Norwich.

Listed as Hoxana in the Domesday Book, the hundred owes its name to the village of Hoxne, claimed as thesite of St Edmund's martyrdom.The name which in turn means "settlement of the Hoxan", believed to be a small Saxon tribe.

[3] This is reinforced by the mention of a bishopric of Hoxne by Theodred, who was Bishop of London for several years before his death around 950.