THE HUNDRED OF ASHENDON
Containing The Parishes Of
Ashendon; Aston Sandford; Boarstall; Brill; Chearsley; Chilton; East Claydon; Middle Claydon; Long Crendon; Dorton; Grandborough; Grendon Underwood; Hogshaw; Ickford; Ilmer; Kingsey; Ludgershall with Kingswood; Fleet Marston; North Marston; Oakley; Oving; Pitchcott; Quainton with Shipton Lee; Quarrendon; Shabbington; Towersey; Waddesdon with Westcott and Woodham Cott and Woodham; Lower or Nether Winchendon; Worminghall; Wotton Underwood;
Until the late 13th or early 14th century the hundred of Ashendon
was divided into the three hundreds of Ashendon, Ixhill and Waddesdon. (fn. 1)
The hundred of Ashendon contained Ashendon, Chearsley, Grendon Underwood, Hogshaw, Ludgershall, Oving, Quainton, Winchendon and Wotton
Underwood. The hundred of Ixhill comprised Aston Sandford, Boarstall,
Brill, Chilton, Long Crendon, Dorton, Ickford, Ilmer, Kingsey, Oakley,
Shabbington, Towersey and Worminghall. The hundred of Waddesdon
included the Claydons, Grandborough, Fleet Marston, North Marston,
Pitchcott, Quarrendon, Waddesdon and Woodham. In 1086 Ashendon
Hundred was assessed at 112 hides 1 virgate, (fn. 2) Ixhill (fn. 3) (Tichesele) at 116
hides 3 virgates, (fn. 4) and Waddesdon Hundred at 89 hides 3 virgates. (fn. 5) The
distinctive names of the hundreds of Ixhill and Waddesdon gradually became
obsolete, and only four references to them have been found in the 16th
and 17th centuries, the latest occurring in 1665. (fn. 6)
Of the names given in the list of parishes and hamlets, those of
Hogshaw, Fulbrook, Kingswood, Boarstall, Kingsey, Pitchcott, Westcott and
Woodham are not found in the Domesday Survey. Towersey occurs as Eie,
and Boarstall, Kingsey and Kingswood were later subdivisions of the royal
domain of Brill. The following places mentioned in Domesday are not
included in the list: Beachendon in Waddesdon parish, Sortelai formerly
in Shipton Lee, Addingrove in Oakley. Most of the names of the thirty-
one parishes occur in 16th-century assessment lists, (fn. 7) and all are enumerated
in some belonging to the 17th century. (fn. 8)
The court leet of the bailiwick was held twice yearly usually at
Towersey. All actions under 40s. might be tried and determined at the
court held every three weeks at Brill. (fn. 9)
Index Map To The Hundered of Ashendon
In 1665 a grant of the Ashendon Hundreds was made to Queen
Katherine subject to a thirty-one years' lease granted to Robert Dormer (fn. 10) in
1662. (fn. 11)