Hundreds of Huntingdonshire

Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century, Huntingdonshire was divided for administrative purposes into four roughly equally sized hundreds, plus the borough of Huntingdon.

Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.

The four were Norman Cross, Leightonstone, Hurstingstone, and Toseland, which respectively fill the northern, western, eastern and southern quarters of the county.

The boundaries of the county have scarcely changed since the time of the Domesday Survey, except that parts of the Bedfordshire parishes of Everton, Pertenhall and Keysoe and the Northamptonshire parish of Hargrave were then assessed under Huntingdonshire.

[3] At the start of the 19th century, the hundreds contained the following parishes:[4] In addition, three detached parishes formed part of Huntingdonshire until they were incorporated into Bedfordshire in the late 19th century, and each was historically part of one of the Hundreds of Bedfordshire.