Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BERMONDSPIT

BERMONDSPIT, a hundred in Basingstoke division, Hants. It is cut into lower half and upper half. The lower half contains Candover parish and four other parishes. Acres, 10,156. Pop. in 1851, 1,318. Houses, 249. The upper half contains Bentworth parish and eight other parishes. Acres, 15,816. Pop., 2,430. Houses, 450.


(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: Hampshire AncC
Place: Bermondspit

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