Blackbourn Hundred

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Blackbourn was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 66,272 acres (26,819 ha).

Blackbourn Hundred

Blackbourn hundred was situated in the north-west of Suffolk. Its northern boundary is the Little Ouse forming the border with Norfolk, and the River Lark forms part of its western boundary.

The hundred appears in the Domesday Book as Blachruna and Blackebrune meaning "black bourn", where a bourn is a stream. The stream in question is that which flows north through Ixworth, Bardwell, and Fakenham Magna to the Little Ouse at Euston and is still known as the Black Bourn.[1]

Parishes

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Suffolk hundreds

Blackbourn Hundred consisted of the following 34 parishes:[2]

Parish Area (acres)
Badwell Ash 1860
Bardwell 3142
Barnham 5184
Barningham 1555
Coney Weston 1321
Culford 2490
Elmswell 2021
Euston 3780
Fakenham Magna 2155
Great Ashfield 2030
Hepworth 1640
Hinderclay 1400
Honington 1204
Hopton 1322
Hunston 1120
Ingham 1809
Ixworth 2213
Ixworth Thorpe 1000
Knettishall 1025
Langham 1270
Little Livermere 1433
Market Weston 1090
Norton 2450
Rickinghall 1966
Rushford (part) 1000
Sapiston 1155
Stanton, Suffolk 3254
Stowlangtoft 1358
Thelnetham 1721
Troston 1770
Walsham-le-Willows 2760
Wattisfield 1600
West Stow 3050
Wordwell 2120

References

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  1. ^ Walter Skeat (1913). The Place-names of Suffolk.
  2. ^ 1841 Census

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