Lesnewth Hundred is one of the former hundreds of Cornwall

Hundreds of Cornwall

Cornwall was from Anglo-Saxon times until the 19th century divided into hundreds, some with the suffix shire as in Pydarshire, East and West Wivelshire and Powdershire which were first recorded as names between 1184-1187. In the Cornish language the word for "hundred" is keverang and is the...

, Trigg

Triggshire

The hundred of Trigg was one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall--see "Hundreds of Cornwall".Trigg is mentioned by name during the 7th century, as "Pagus Tricurius", "land of three war hosts". It was to the north of Cornwall, and included Bodmin Moor, Bodmin and the district to the...

 was to the south-west and Stratton Hundred to the north-east. Tintagel

Tintagel

Tintagel is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The population of the parish is 1,820 people, and the area of the parish is ....

, Camelford

Camelford

Camelford is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately ten miles north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council....

, Boscastle

Boscastle

Boscastle is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Forrabury and Minster. It is situated 14 miles south of Bude and 5 miles north-east of Tintagel....

, and Altarnun

Altarnun

Altarnun is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is located on the north-eastern edge of Bodmin Moor at .The parish of Altarnun includes the village of Fivelanes and the hamlets of Bolventor, Treween and Trewint, and had a population of 976 according to the 2001 census...

 were in the Hundred of Lesnewth as well as Lesnewth

Lesnewth

Lesnewth is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately six miles east of Tintagel Head and two miles east of Boscastle....

 which is now only a small village but in Celtic times was the seat of a Celtic chieftain who ruled the whole of Trigg.

The division into hundreds is thought to date from the reign of King Athelstan and at the time of the Domesday Survey the internal order of manors in the Exeter Domesday Book

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...

 for Cornwall is in most cases based on the hundreds to which they belonged (though the hundred names are not used). In the Geld Inquest of 1083 only seven hundreds are found, identified by the names of the chief manors: Connerton, Winnianton, Pawton, Tybesta, Stratton, Fawton and Rillaton. Here Stratton represents a single hundred including the later Stratton, Lesnewth and Trigg.

Parishes

Advent

Advent, Cornwall

Advent is a civil parish on the north-western edge of Bodmin Moor in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is named after St Adwenna and lies in the Registration District of Camelford....

, Altarnun

Altarnun

Altarnun is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is located on the north-eastern edge of Bodmin Moor at .The parish of Altarnun includes the village of Fivelanes and the hamlets of Bolventor, Treween and Trewint, and had a population of 976 according to the 2001 census...

, St Clether

St Clether

St Clether is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the east flank of Bodmin Moor approximately eight miles west of Launceston in the valley of the River Inny....

, Davidstow

Davidstow

Davidstow is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is north of Bodmin Moor straddling the A395 road about 3 miles north of Camelford....

, Forrabury, St Gennys

St Gennys

St Gennys is a coastal civil parish and small settlement in north Cornwall, United Kingdom.The hamlet of St Gennys is situated approximately seven miles southwest of Bude. It is on high ground half-a-mile north of the coastal village of Crackington Haven, the major settlement in the parish...

, St Juliot

St Juliot

St Juliot is a civil parish in north-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is entirely rural and the only settlements are the hamlets of Beeny and Tresparrett.-Parish Church:...

, Lanteglos-by-Camelford

Camelford

Camelford is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately ten miles north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council....

, Lesnewth

Lesnewth

Lesnewth is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately six miles east of Tintagel Head and two miles east of Boscastle....

, Michaelstow

Michaelstow

Michaelstow is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately three miles south of Camelford.The civil parish of Michaelstow is in the deanery of Trigg Minor and Hundred of Lesnewth. It...

, Minster, Otterham

Otterham

Otterham is a village and a civil parish in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately ten miles south of Bude and six miles north of Camelford....

, Poundstock

Poundstock

Poundstock is a civil parish and a hamlet on the north coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated four miles south of Bude half-a-mile west of the A39 trunk road about one mile from the coast....

, Tintagel

Tintagel

Tintagel is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The population of the parish is 1,820 people, and the area of the parish is ....

 [with Bossiney

Bossiney

Bossiney is a village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is north-east of the larger village of Tintagel which it adjoins: further north-east are the Rocky Valley and Trethevy.-History:...

], Treneglos

Treneglos

Treneglos is a hamlet and a civil parish in north-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in the Registration District of Launceston.The civil parish is bounded to the north by Warbstow parish, to the east by Tremaine and Tresmere parishes, and to the west by Davidstow parish...

, Trevalga

Trevalga

Trevalga is a coastal civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south-east by Forrabury and Minster parish and on the west by Tintagel parish....

, Warbstow

Warbstow

Warbstow is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish has a population of 439 according to the 2001 census.The parish is one of the few left in England to still have an exclave...

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