# Desborough Hundred > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Desborough_Hundred > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Desborough_Hundred.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desborough_Hundred > Source revision: 1352387805 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article is about the historic area of Buckinghamshire. For the town in Northamptonshire, see [Desborough](/source/Desborough). Administrative division in Buckinghamshire, England [51°37′58″N 0°46′39″W / 51.63278°N 0.77750°W / 51.63278; -0.77750](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Desborough_Hundred¶ms=51_37_58_N_0_46_39_W_type:landmark_region:GB) Desborough Hundred Area • 1871 45,337 acres (183.47 km2)[1] Population • 1871 19,198[2] History • Created 11th century Status Hundred • HQ Desborough Castle Subdivisions • Type Parishes **Desborough Hundred** is a [hundred](/source/Hundred_(division)) in [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire), [England](/source/England). It is situated in the south of the county and is bounded on the west by [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire) and on the south the [River Thames](/source/River_Thames) marked the boundary with [Berkshire](/source/Berkshire). The hundred is named after the hundred court meeting place of [Desborough Castle](/source/Desborough_Castle) in [High Wycombe](/source/High_Wycombe).[3] ## History Until at least the time of the [Domesday Survey](/source/Domesday_Survey) in 1086 there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire. It has been suggested however that neighbouring hundreds had already become more closely associated in the 11th century so that by the end of the 14th century the original or ancient hundreds had been consolidated into 8 larger hundreds.[4] Desborough hundred is one of three hundreds which became collectively known as the [Chiltern hundreds](/source/Chiltern_hundreds) around the 13th century, the others being [Burnham hundred](/source/Burnham_(hundred)) and [Stoke hundred](/source/Stoke_(hundred)). Even before this time these individual hundreds had become special possessions of the Crown and were together [stewarded](/source/Steward_(office)) as a royal [bailiwick](/source/Bailiwick), occupying the place of any [dukedom](/source/Duchy), [earldom](/source/Earldom) or [barony](/source/English_feudal_barony) that might otherwise have had absolute possession of the whole area (see [fee simple](/source/Fee_simple) and [knight's fee](/source/Knight's_fee)). The Chiltern Hundreds were for all but this Crown Steward and Bailiff (one role), separately leased and administered, the lords of the various [manors](/source/Manorialism) meeting occasionally in each hundred of the [county](/source/County_(England)), which were the main administrative units. Meanwhile the role of [Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds](/source/Steward_of_the_Chiltern_Hundreds) persisted in name only becoming a government-led appointment, and from 1751, a disqualifying [sinecure](/source/Sinecure) for any elected members of the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom). ## Parishes and hamlets Desborough hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets (formerly [medieval](/source/Medieval) [vills](/source/Vill)):[5] Bradenham Ibstone (part of) Stokenchurch† Fawley Great Marlow Turville Fingest Little Marlow Wooburn Hambleden Medmenham Chepping Wycombe‡ Hedsor Radnage West Wycombe Hughenden Saunderton † Stokenchurch was originally in Oxfordshire, and transferred to Buckinghamshire in the latter part of the 19th century after the hundred was superseded. ‡ Later High Wycombe ## See also - [List of hundreds of England and Wales](/source/List_of_hundreds_of_England) - [Baron Desborough](/source/Baron_Desborough) v t e Buckinghamshire Hundreds Ashendon Aylesbury Buckingham Burnham Cottesloe Desborough Newport Stoke ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Vision of Britain - Desborough Area](http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=811890&word=NULL) Retrieved, May 23, 2009 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Vision of Britain - Desborough Population](http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=811890&word=NULL) Retrieved, May 23, 2009 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Anderson, Olaf (1934). ["The English Hundred Names"](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/sites/social_historical_sciences/files/Anderson3.pdf) (PDF). *LUNDS UNIVERSITETS ARSSKRIFT*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Genuki - History of Buckinghaham Hundreds](http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/hundreds/hhundreds.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090823202230/http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/hundreds/hhundreds.html) August 23, 2009, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) Retrieved, May 21, 2009 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [History on Line - Victoria County History - A History of the County of Buckingham - Desborough Hundred: Volume 3, (1925), pp. 32-34.](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42523) Retrieved, May 23, 2009 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Desborough Hundred](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desborough_Hundred) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desborough_Hundred?action=history)). 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