Administrative unit

Alton Foreign Hundred

Ancient District

Preferred Name:
ALTON FOREIGN
Unit Type:
Ancient District
Status:
Hundred
Date created:
By 1212
Date abolished:
 
Unit ID:
12874613
Authorities:
Robin Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (London: British Academy, 1975)

Notes:

This area was called Neatham hundred in the Domesday book. Anderson's monograph on the hundreds of southeast England refers to both Alton (internal), which included the ville, and Alton Foreign implying that there were two hundreds which eventually merged.

Alternative names

We know of no alternate names.

Unit associations

We know of no associations with other units.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
HAMPSHIRE Ancient County     Robin Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (London: British Academy, 1975)

Boundary changes

We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.

Lower level units

We know of no units which were contained within this unit.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Alton Foreign Hundred through time | Census tables with data for the Ancient District, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12874613

Date accessed: 24th April 2024