THE HUNDRED OF NAVISFORD 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



CLAPTON THR.-VPSTON 



PILTON TITCHMARSH 



STOKE DOYLE WADENIIOE 

 THORPE ACHURCH 



The Hundred of Narresford or Navisford was one of the eight hundreds 

 held by the Abbey of Peterborough, which were confirmed to it in the charter 

 of Richard I.' In tlie Domesday Survey, the four parishes of Clapton, 



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/ .STOKE DOYLB^» ^ 





Index Map to the Hundred of Navisford 



Thrapston, Titchmarsh and Wadenhoe are given under the definite heading 

 of Navisford Hundred ^ and there is no reason to think that Thorpe Achurch 

 and Pilton, which were held of the Abbey, did not belong to it. Stoke Doyle 

 is given under the heading of ' VVicesle,'^ but this apparently is a mistake. 

 The Abbot, however, seems to have held only one court for the Hundreds of 

 Polebrook and Navisford, so that the seven parishes frequently appear under 



' Cal. Chart. IZ26-57, p. 19; Chron. Petrob. (Camden Soc), 118, 124-125. 

 ^ V.C.H. Northants. i, 309a, 333(3, 349^, 3S0(J. 

 * Ihid. ii^a. 



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