THE HUNDRED OF BRAUGHING 



BISHOP'S STORTFORD 

 BRAUGHING 

 EASTWrCK 

 GILSTON 



HUNSDON 

 SAWBRIDGEWORTH 

 STANDON 



STANSTEAD ABBOTS 

 THORLEY 



THUNDRIDGE 

 WARE 

 WESTMILL 

 WIDFORD 



Braughing Hundred is large in area in proportion to the number of its 

 parishes. Its boundary has changed little since the earliest records of it. 

 Widford and Cockhamsted 

 were both in Edwinstree 

 Hundred in 1086, but assess- 

 ments of the 14th century 

 show that Widford had been 

 transferred to Braughing 

 before that date, 1 whilst 

 Cockhamsted does not later 

 appear to have had any 

 separate entity either civil 

 or ecclesiastic, but to have 

 been included in the parish of 

 Braughing in this hundred. 

 Besides the vills of the 

 Domesday Survey which 

 correspond with the other 

 civil parishes in the list of 

 1 83 1, 2 there were then also 

 Wickham 3 and Eia.* Wick- 

 ham was a separate vill for 



judicial 5 and fiscal purposes as late as the 14th century, but four persons 

 only were assessed under its name for a subsidy in 1307.® Later it was 

 included in Bishop's Stortford. Eia must have lain not far from Wickham, 

 for it seems to have been originally included in the same assessment (see 

 below), but no further mention of it has been found, and there seems to be 

 no survival of the name. Gilston is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, 

 and seems to have been then included in Sawbridgeworth. Thundridge, 

 although assessed by itself in 1086/ does not seem to have had any 



1 See Subs. R. bdle. 120, no. 8. 



* Pep. Ret. 1831. 



3 F.C.H. Herts. i, 308a, 332^, 335, 



3 



* Ibid. ma. 



8 Assize B. 33; (15 Edw. I). 



6 Subs. R. bdle. 1 



7 F.C.H. Herts. i. 



