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| HER Number | MWB16422 |
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| Record Type | Place |
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| Name | Reading Hundred |
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| Parish | Bradfield, West Berkshire |
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| Purley on Thames, West Berkshire |
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| Burghfield, West Berkshire |
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| Englefield, West Berkshire |
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| Padworth, West Berkshire |
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| Pangbourne, West Berkshire |
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| Stratfield Mortimer, West Berkshire |
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| Sulham, West Berkshire |
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| Ufton Nervet, West Berkshire |
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| Woolhampton, West Berkshire |
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| Aldermaston, West Berkshire |
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Summary
Saxon administrative unit of Berkshire
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
The hundred of Reading is mentioned in the Domesday Book <1><2><3> and consisted of Reading, Pangbourne and what was later called the hundred of Theale. Theale hundred was formed between 1220 and 1241; after this the name of Reading hundred was also applied to a number of scattered vills which belonged to Reading Abbey, including Bucklebury and Thatcham (although they lay within Faircross) <1>.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | Gelling, M. 1973. The Place Names of Berkshire - Part One. English Place-Name Society Vol XLIX. p149. [Monograph / SWB10003] |
| <02> | Morgan, P (ed). 1979. Domesday Book - Berkshire. DB5. [Monograph / SWB14587]
https://opendomesday.org/ (Accessed 11/01/2023) |
| <03> | Hinde, T. 1985. The Domesday Book. [Monograph / SWB11679] |
| <04> | Page and Ditchfield (eds). 1923. Victoria County History (VCH) Berks III 1923. Vol 3. p275-384 (Reading), p385-446 (Theale). [Monograph / SWB10005]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3 (Accessed 08/03/2022) |
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