Kerrier_Hundred

Kerrier Hundred

Kerrier Hundred

Ancient administrative unit of Cornwall, England

See also: Hundreds of Cornwall

50.106°N 5.270°W / 50.106; -5.270

Kerrier Hundred

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The hundred of Kerrier was the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Kerrier (sometimes Kirrier) is thought by Charles Thomas to be derived from an obsolete name (ker hyr = long fort) of Castle Pencaire on Tregonning Hill, Breage.[1] It is likely that an even earlier name for the district was Predannack which has been displaced by the Lizard Peninsula as a geographical name.

Parishes in Kerrier hundred

St Anthony-in-Meneage, Breage, Budock, Constantine, Cury, Falmouth, Germoe, St Gluvias, Grade, Gunwalloe alias Winnington, Gwennap with St Day, Helston, St Keverne, Landewednack, Mabe, Manaccan, St Martin-in-Meneage, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Mawnan, Mullion, Mylor, Perranarworthal, Ruan Minor, and Ruan Major, Sithney, St Stithians, Wendron

Adjacent hundreds

References

  1. [1]
    Thomas, Charles (1964) Settlement History in Early Cornwall: I; the antiquity of the hundreds (In: Cornish Archaeology. 3. St Ives: Cornwall Archaeological Society, pp. 70-79)


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