Elthorne Hundred

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Location of the hundred in Middlesex. Elthorne Hundred in Middlesex.svg
Location of the hundred in Middlesex.

Elthorne was a hundred (ancient subdivision) of the historic county of Middlesex, England.

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Middlesex parishes.jpg
Middlesex parishes.jpg
The parishes and major newer settlements in the Hundred. For some years until c.1880s reforms Northolt and Hanwell enjoyed small detached parts (exclaves). As to Northolt, in Greenford lay a small exclave and enclave of agricultural land, the smaller of which was 2.5 acres (expanded on map as too small to show), the larger, 47. Cowley completely consisted of enclaves in Hillingdon parish. Its parcels have therefore given way to a more workable modern definition, Cowley Peachey close to the site of its main manor.
Wenceslas Hollar - Middlesex (State 6).jpg
Wenceslas Hollar - Middlesex (State 6).jpg
Non-geometric map of the county engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar (d.1677). The manors and villages shown are those seen as most notable. Not confined to those with a church, many of the then-largest estates or simply estates of greatest houses have become obsolete.

Toponymy

The name is a standard contraction in Old English of El(ɘ's) thorn El likely being a man, perhaps one of the eorls (earls) in the same way as Spelthorne Hundred, adjacent, and the thorn would accurately reflect that most of the land, like Hounslow Heath of today, until and unless manually cleared was covered or underlain as it naturally is here with hawthorns, blackthorns and brambles. The most distinctive of these is the sometimes tree-height genus, the hawthorn, which is in warm months heavy with small white flowers and is endemic to the local gravel-rich soil and banks of rivers across all England save for the north and south-west, where its larger type also extends to. [1] [2] Blackthorns are alongside hawthorns the ancient underlayer of the local Ten Acre Wood, an oak plantation. [3] Antiquaries have suggested a meeting-point tree, in the same way as Ossulstone was a meeting point, however, in the same way as "broom" and "gorse" are used whether the noun refers to single thorn tree is unascertainable.

Parishes

It was a north-west portion having these parishes: [4] [5]

It thus closely corresponded to the present London Borough of Hillingdon, plus the western half of the London Borough of Ealing. The eastern third of Ealing is mainly Ealing and Acton which lay in Ossulstone Hundred.

Simplification of complex shapes

All adopted road street signs across Hillingdon pay regard to the normal, common consensus definition of each London district, much of which is based on the old and revised parishes and more particularly the secular Urban Districts and early ward electoral divisions which succeeded them in government. Looking west at the junction of Hesa and Wesley Roads (geograph 3651135).jpg
All adopted road street signs across Hillingdon pay regard to the normal, common consensus definition of each London district, much of which is based on the old and revised parishes and more particularly the secular Urban Districts and early ward electoral divisions which succeeded them in government.

Major roads and housing estates have simplified the borders of localities as shown on each local street name sign in these boroughs. The complexity of many old parish borders of Elthorne hundred has been reduced. This is seen in the modern borders of the local Church of England ecclesiastical parishes, radically simplified. As to the smallest of old parishes most boundaries have greatly changed particularly Ickenham which has shifted west. Local councils have not gone so far as to redefine street signs on the basis of equal-electorate electoral wards. They locally take heed of a fusion of long history, wards and numbered postal districts. [11]

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References and notes

References
  1. "Crataegus laevigata | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora".
  2. "Crataegus monogyna | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora".
  3. "Ten Acre Woods and Meadows (part of Yeading Woods LNR)". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. "Table Of Population 1801–1901". British History. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  5. Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'The hundred of Elthorne (continued)', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4 in the Victoria County History collaborative historians' work ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), p. 1. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/p1 [accessed 16 May 2018].
  6. Diane K Bolton, Patricia E C Croot and M A Hicks, 'Ealing and Brentford: Churches, Brentford', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7 ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1982), pp. 153-157. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp153-157 [accessed 17 May 2018].
  7. Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'Norwood, including Southall: Roman catholicism [etc]', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), pp. 52-53. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp52-53 [accessed 17 May 2018].
  8. Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'Norwood, including Southall: Sikhs', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), p. 53. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/p53 [accessed 17 May 2018].
  9. 1 2 Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'Hillingdon, including Uxbridge: Churches', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4 ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), pp. 87-91. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp87-91 [accessed 17 May 2018].
  10. Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'Northolt: Introduction', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), pp. 109-113. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp109-113 [accessed 17 May 2018]
  11. Map of Ickenham parish Church of England. Accessed 17 May 2018
Notes
  1. In the centuries until their powers were curtailed the Manorial Court of Boston Manor to the south-east gave suit to (was subject to the aegis of) the Hundred Court. The most built up part of the old manor immediately contributed to Brentford. Specifically the townspeople of New Brentford, founded around St Lawrence's Hospital in the old manorial land in 1179, were to worship at Hanwell on the four principal feasts and to be buried there, except the infirm, chaplains, and their servants. Offerings, tithes (but a smaller portion after c.1660) and an annual donation of wax went from the curate/curacy to the rector of Hanwell. Around 1660 New Brentford, already governed by its own vestry, was made a separate parish. In 1714 the rector of Hanwell managed to assert his right to the hay tithes from Boston manorial demesne but in 1744 he gave up the small tithes of New Brentford, all hay tithes except those from Boston demesne, and all offerings. In 1961 the parish of St. Lawrence, New Brentford, was amalgamated with St. George's and St. Paul's, Old Brentford to form the united parishes of Brentford in the Church of England. [6]
  2. Southall has a rich array of non-Anglican places of worship. A Sikh temple on Southall Green opened in 1963. The gurdwara was moved to another site in Southall in 1967, the old site hosting the Roman Catholic church which had had a temporary succession of churches from 1903. At least 11 other denominations of churches since 1878 have served Southall and Norwood, an unusual number outsite of a city centre, partly reflecting the diverse nationalities of founders, such as in the Gospel Hall movement. [7] [8]
  3. Liberally described in 1547 as a vicarage valued at £5
  4. From at least as early as the 18th century two detached areas of Northolt parish lay in Greenford. The larger area, comprising 47 a. was the west of Greenford village immediately north of the Ruislip road and west of Oldfield Lane. A further 2½ a., called Mill Field in 1775, lay along the southern boundary of Greenford. These detached parts were transferred to Greenford in 1882 and 1887. [10]

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