Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EDWINSTREE

EDWINSTREE, a hundred in Herts. It adjoins Cambridgeshire and Essex; is 16 ½ miles long from N to S, and from 2½ to 7 miles broad; and contains eighteen parishes. Acres, 37, 229. Pop., 9, 471. Houses, 1, 983.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Hertfordshire Ancient County
Place: Edwinstree

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