Clavering hundred

Clavering hundred was a hundred – or geographical subdivision – comprising parishes and settlements in Essex and Norfolk.^[1] Hundreds were divisions of areas of land within shires or counties for administrative and judicial purposes – and for the collection of taxes.^[2]

In the Domesday Book of 1086, there were 27 places listed as part of the hundred. The two largest settlements within the hundred were Raveningham, with 115.5 households - according to the Domesday Book - and Clavering, with 80 households. Clavering had the largest taxable value within the hundred.^[3]

Middle Street, Clavering, Essex

Locations in Essex

• Bentfield Bury
• Berden
• Bollington Hall
• Clavering
• Farnham
• Manuden
• Peyton Hall
• Pinchpools
• Ugley
• Pledgdon Hall

St Andrew's Church in the village of Raveningham - once the largest settlement in Clavering hundred

Locations in Norfolk

• Aldeby
• Ellingham
• Gillingham
• Haddiscoe
• Hales
• Heckingham
• Kirby Cane
• Norton Subcourse
• Raveningham
• Stockton
• Thurlton
• Toft Monks
• Wheatacre

Four further Clavering hundred settlements in Norfolk - Ierpestuna, Naruestuna, Thurketeliart and Torvestuna - are also mentioned in the Domesday Book, however these names no longer exist and the sites can only be located approximately.

See also

• List of Essex Hundreds in 1844
• Hundreds of Essex
• Hundreds of Norfolk