The county of Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

 was divided into hundreds between Saxon times and the 19th century, when they were replaced for administrative purposes by districts.

In 1831 the county was subdivided into twenty-one hundreds and three municipal boroughs. The majority of these hundreds had remained unchanged since the time of the Domesday Survey

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

, except that in 1086 Babergh was listed as two hundreds, Cosford, Ipswich and Parham as half hundreds and Samford as a hundred and a half. Hoxne hundred was then known as Bishops hundred and the vills which were included later in Thredling hundred were within Claydon hundred.

List of hundreds (1831)

Hundred	Area (acres)
Babergh Babergh (hundred) Babergh was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . Its name survives in that of Babergh, the local government district of southern Suffolk that includes the former hundred as well as those of Cosford and Samford....	70632
Blackbourn Blackbourn (hundred) Blackbourn was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .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....	66272
Blything Blything (hundred) Blything was a hundred of eastern Suffolk, and with an area of was the largest of Suffolk's 21 hundreds.The origins of the hundred centre around the ancient royal estate of Blythburgh, whose hall housed the hundred's central meeting place....	87631
Bosmere-and-Claydon Bosmere-and-Claydon (hundred) Bosmere and Claydon was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .The hundred is a fertile and picturesque district varying from 8 to about in length and breadth. It is bounded on the south by the Borough of Ipswich and Samford Hundred, on the west by Cosford and Stow Hundreds on the north by...	48773
Carlford Carlford (hundred) Carlford is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Carford Hundred is of an irregular figure about ten miles in length and from four to six miles wide. It is bounded on the south by Colneis Hundred, on the east by Wilford Hundred and the River Deben, on the north by Loes Hundred and on the west by...	25461
Colneis Colneis (hundred) Colneis is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Running from the south-east outskirts of Ipswich to the North Sea coast, the hundred is made up of the land between the estuaries of the rivers Orwell and Deben. It is one of the smallest in Suffolk, being only about four miles wide and ten miles ...	16712
Cosford Cosford (hundred) Cosford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .The hundred consisted of Hadleigh, the only town of any size, and seventeen other parishes in western Suffolk. The area is undulating and agriculturally-fertile with clay soil, watered by the River Brett and its tributary streams...	30712
Hartismere Hartismere (hundred) Hartismere was a hundred of Suffolk, that later gave its name to a poor law union, a rural sanitary district, and the Hartismere Rural District....	53479
Hoxne Hoxne (hundred) Hoxne was a hundred of Suffolk, with an area of .Hoxne Hundred was a fertile district averaging about nine miles in length and breadth. It was bounded on the north by the River Waveney which separates it from Norfolk, on the east by Wangford and Blything Hundreds, on the south by Plomegate, Loes...	55648
Lackford Lackford (hundred) Lackford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .The hundred fills the north western corner of Suffolk and is triangular in shape, extending about fifteen miles in length on each side. It is bounded on the north by Norfolk, on the west by Cambridgeshire, and on the south east by Blackbourn,...	83712
Loes Loes (hundred) Loes was a hundred of Suffolk, with an area of .Loes Hundred was long and thin in shape, around long and between 2 and wide. It followed the course of the River Deben from Cretingham to Ufford where it crossed Wilford Hundred to Woodbridge where it widened considerably...	31321
Mutford and Lothingland Mutford and Lothingland (hundred) Mutford and Lothingland was a hundred of Suffolk, with an area of . Lowestoft Ness, the most easterly point of Great Britain fell within its bounds.Мutford and Lothingland Hundred formed the north-eastern corner of Suffolk...	33368
Plomesgate Plomesgate (hundred) Plomesgate is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Plomesgate Hundred comprises the historic ports of Aldeburgh and Orford, the medieval market town of Saxmundham and twenty other parishes in the east of the county. It forms a strip around 14 miles long and up to 9 miles wide running...	41579
Risbridge Risbridge (hundred) Risbridge is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Risbridge Hundred forms the south western corner of Suffolk extending from north to south and between 4 and in breadth. It is bounded on the west by Cambridgeshire on the south by Essex, on the east by Babergh and Thingoe Hundreds and on the north...	58468
Samford Samford (hundred) Samford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . It was situated to the south and south west of Ipswich.The hundred was bounded by the River Orwell to the east, Essex to the south, the River Brett to the west, and the parish boundaries of Burstall, Hintlesham and Sproughton to the...	44940
Stow Stow (hundred) Stow was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Stow Hundred a fertile and picturesque district in central Suffolk around seven miles in length and breadth. It is bounded by Cosford, Bosmere and Claydon, Thedwestry, Blackbourn and Hartismere Hundreds...	22710
Thedwestry	40362
Thingoe Thingoe (hundred) Thingoe was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .One of the smaller hundreds of Suffolk, around wide and long, Thingoe contained the borough of Bury St Edmunds on its eastern border, though the town was considered a separate jurisdiction. The remainder of the hundred consisted of the land to the...	31850
Thredling Thredling (hundred) Thredling was a hundred of Suffolk, and at just under the smallest of Suffolk's 21 hundreds.The five parishes of Thredling fall into the Deanery of Claydon, the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and the Diocese of Norwich. The hundred was bounded by Loes, Carlford, Hoxne, Hartismere and Bosmere and Claydon...	10000
Wangford Wangford (hundred) Wangford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Wangford Hundred was an area of around twelve miles from west to east and five across. The River Waveney formed its northern border separating it from Norfolk...	34679
Wilford Wilford (hundred) Wilford is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Wilford Hundred extends about southward from Debach to Woodbridge and from there along the eastern banks of the River Deben to Bawdsey and Hollesley Bay in the North Sea...	31500

In addition the county contained three boroughs, corresponding to the county's largest towns:

Borough	Area (acres)
Bury St Edmunds	3040
Ipswich Ipswich Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...	8450
Sudbury Sudbury, Suffolk Sudbury is a small, ancient market town in the county of Suffolk, England, on the River Stour, from Colchester and from London.-Early history:...	1250