Spelthorne Hundred
| Spelthorne | |
|---|---|
| Area | |
| • 1831 | 23,386 acres (94.64 km2) |
| Population | |
| • 1831 | 15,212 |
| • 1881 | 33,460 |
| History | |
| • Created | in late Anglo Saxon England |
| Status | hundred |
| Subdivisions | |
| • Type | Parishes containing manors, churchlands and commons. Henry VIII created the two royal parks in the eastern two parishes - Bushy Park and Hampton Court Park - and set up hunting rights and similar privileges across much of the hundred. By the 19th century all the commons were enclosed and only manor with its lands largely undivided was Hampton Court. |
Spelthorne was a hundred (dated subdivision) of the historic county of Middlesex, England. It contained these parishes and settlements:
- Ashford
- East Bedfont
- The hamlet of Hatton
- Feltham
- Hampton
- The settlement of Hampton Hill developed in the 19th century
- Hampton Wick
- Hanworth
- Laleham
- Littleton since the 1970s contiguous with Shepperton
- The chapelry of Astleham/Aslam. In the 1930s replaced with the Queen Mary Reservoir.
- Shepperton
- Staines
- Stanwell
- The hamlet of Stanwell Moor, since the 20th century a village without a church
- Sunbury
- The hamlet of Upper Halliford, today a village, joined postally with Shepperton
- The hamlet of Charlton, joined postally with Shepperton
- Teddington
- Part of the neighbourhood of Fulwell, once a single-ownership estate, by consensus spreading south to around to its railway station
The present-day district of Spelthorne in Surrey amounts to about 59% of the hundred. The eastern parts since 1965 form parts of the London boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames.