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DIVISIONS. 
Monthly Magazine, November, 1805, and there stated 
to have been published by the House of Lords, this 
county is said to contain only 674 square miles, or 
431,360 acres. I know not from what documents, or 
authority, this account is derived, but am of opinion 
that both this and the former account are erroneous, 
the one being too much and the other too little. By 
comparing the county with Carey’s Map, I estimate 
the mean length, from north to south down the Severn, 
at 30 miles ; and the mean breadth, from east to west, 
at 25 miles ; content 750 square miles, or 480,000 acres; 
of this two-thirds are to the east, and one-third is to 
the west of the river Severn. To this may be added, 
for detached parts, 20,000 acres, making in the whole 
500,000 acres. 
SECT. II —“DIVISIONS. 
Historical and Political. This county was part of 
the ancient Cornavii, or Dobunii ; during the Saxon 
Heptarchy it belonged to the kingdom of Mercia; it 
is divided into five hundreds, and two limits, containing 
one hundred and fifty-two parishes, one city, Wor¬ 
cester, and eleven other market towns. The names of 
the hundreds are as follow : 
Blackenhurst, to the south-east of the county. 
Dodintree, on the west side. 
Halfshire, on the north-east. 
Oswaldstowe, dispersed in different parts. 
Pershore, in the south on both sides the Severn. 
It is in the Oxford circuit. 
Nine members are sent to parliament, viz. by the 
county. 
