THE HUNDRED OF FINCHDEAN 



BLENDWORTH 



BURITON 



CATHERINGTON 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



CHALTON 



IDSWORTH CHAPELRY 



CLANFIELD 



PETERSFIELD BOROUGH 

 SHEET TITHING 



The above list represents the extent of the hundred of Finchdean at 

 the time of the population returns of 1831. The parishes of Bramshott, 

 Greatham, and Liss were added to the hundred before I84I, 1 and Waterloo, 

 constituted a parish in 1858, is also now included in the hundred. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey this hundred was called 'Ceptune' 



Hundred, and included the parishes 

 of Blendworth, Buriton, Catherington, 

 Chalton, Clanfield, and Petersfield.* 

 The land comprising the hundred was 

 assessed in the time of Edward the 

 Confessor at 83 hides, and in the 

 time of the Survey at about half that 

 amount. The hundred had assumed 

 its modern name before the end of 

 the twelfth century, 8 but seems some- 

 times to have been called ' Wlputta,' 

 as in the 'Testa de Nevill, where Chal- 

 ton, Idsworth, and Mapledurham are 

 included in the hundred of that 

 name.* The extent of the hundred 

 has altered but little since the time of 

 the Survey. Some of the parishes, 

 however, of which it was composed 

 had not exactly the same boundaries as 

 they have at the present day. Thus 

 the western part of the parish of 

 Catherington was included in the 



hundred of Portsdown until the reign of Edward II, and in the reign of 

 Edward I the manor of Hinton Daubnay is mentioned as being in the same 



1 Cf. the Population Returns of 1831 and 1841. 



' V. C. H. Hants, \, 45 1 and 478. The parishes are not all mentioned by name, the only entries under 

 ' Ceptune ' Hundred being ' Malpedresham,' ' Ceptune,' and ' Seneorde,' but, as is shown under the parishes, 

 ' Malpedresham ' included the modern parishes of Buriton, Petersfield and Sheet, and 'Ceptune' those of 

 Blendworth, Catherington, Chalton, Clanfield and Id=worth, while ' Seneorde ' represents ' Sunwood ' Farm 

 in the parish of Buri on. 



1 Fife R. (P pe R. Soc.), 23 Hen. II, xxvi, 171. 4 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 236^. 



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