THE HUNDRED OF MEONSTOKE
CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF
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CORHAMPTON | MEONSTOKE | SOBERTON | WARNFORD |
The above list represents the extent of the hundred at the time of the
Population Returns of 1831. The parishes of West Meon, Exton, and
Bramdean, and part of the parish of Upham, were added to the hundred
before 1841, and probably at the same time the tithing of Burwell in
Hambledon parish was transferred to the hundred of Hambledon, and the
tithing of Liss Abbas in the parish of Liss to the hundred of Finchdean. (fn. 1)
The tithing of Westbury
and Peak in the parish
of East Meon was removed to the hundred
of East Meon at some
later date.
INDEX MAP to the HUNDRED of MEONSTOKE
At the time of the
Domesday Survey the
hundred included the
parishes of Abbott's
Worthy, (fn. 2) Alverstoke, (fn. 3)
Corhampton, (fn. 4) Exton, (fn. 5)
Hambledon, (fn. 6) Liss, (fn. 7)
Meonstoke, (fn. 8) Soberton, (fn. 9)
Warnford, (fn. 10) and West
Meon (fn. 11) and the tithing
of Westbury, (fn. 12) in the
parish of East Meon.
The land comprising
the hundred was assessed
in the reign of Edward
the Confessor at 89 hides, and at the time of the survey at about 56 hides.
By the beginning of the fourteenth century the area of the hundred had
much decreased. West Meon, Exton, Alverstoke, Abbott's Worthy, a large
part of the parish of Hambledon, and the tithing of Liss Turney in the
parish of Liss had been removed, and in 1316 the hundred comprised the
parishes of Meonstoke, Soberton, Warnford, and Corhampton, the tithing of
Liss Abbas in the parish of Liss, the tithing of Westbury in the parish of
East Meon, and the tithing of Burwell in the parish of Hambledon. (fn. 13) From
this date the extent of the hundred remained practically unchanged until
after 1831. (fn. 14)
This hundred has always belonged to the crown. In a survey of
the hundred taken in the Commonwealth period it was stated that the
courts-leet and law-days of the hundred were still then held at Easter
and Michaelmas and that the three-weeks' courts or sheriff's tourns were also
regularly held. (fn. 15)