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Eggerton Hundred

former administrative division in Dorset, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ5347901 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eggerton Hundred or Eggardon Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:

Askerswell

Hooke

Long Bredy

Powerstock (part)

Winterbourne Abbas

Wraxall

See also

List of hundreds in Dorset

Sources

Boswell, Edward, 1833: The Civil Division of the County of Dorset (published on CD by Archive CD Books Ltd, 1992)

Hutchins, John, History of Dorset, vols 1-4 (3rd ed 1861–70; reprinted by EP Publishing, Wakefield, 1973)

Mills, A. D., 1977, 1980, 1989: Place Names of Dorset, parts 1–3.

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The public source identifies “Eggerton Hundred” as former administrative division in Dorset, England, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eggerton, Hundred and former.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eggerton Hundred” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.