Thedwastre was a hundred of 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...

, England covering an area of 40362 acres (163.3 km²). It formed part of the Liberty of St Edmund, under the jurisdiction of the abbot

Abbot

The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...

s of Bury St Edmunds.

The hundred is about twelve miles (19 km) in length and six miles (10 km) wide. It is bounded on the west by the borough of Bury St Edmunds and Thingoe Hundred

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...

, on the north and east by 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....

 and 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...

 Hundreds, and on the south by 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...

 and 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....

 Hundreds. It is a fertile district with undulating terrain and watered by streams which rise within its limits and feeding the rivers Thet

River Thet

The River Thet is a river in Norfolk, England and is a tributary of the River Little Ouse.It rises in The Fens around Rockland All Saints and joins the Little Ouse in Thetford....

, Gipping

River Gipping

The River Gipping is the source river for the River Orwell in the county of Suffolk in East Anglia, England, which gave its name to the former Gipping Rural District and the village of Gipping....

, Lark

River Lark

The River Lark is a river in England, which crosses the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. It is a tributary of the River Great Ouse, and was extended when that river was re-routed as part of drainage improvements. It is thought to have been used for navigation since Roman times, and...

 and Brett.

It is in the Deanery of Thedwestry, the Archdeaconry of 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:...

, the Diocese of Ely

Diocese of Ely

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 and Liberty of St Edmund. It contains no town of any size, but Bury and Ixworth

Ixworth

Ixworth is a village and civil parish in the Borough of St Edmundsbury in Suffolk, United Kingdom. It is some northeast of Bury St Edmunds, on the A143 road to Diss and has a population of 2,177. Retrieved 2009-09-28]-Earthworks:...

 are on its borders.

Listed as Theivardestreu in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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, the name derives from "Theodward's tree", presumably a notable tree situated on the area's boundary.

Parishes

Thedwastre was made up of 24 parishes:

Parish	Area (acres)
Ampton Ampton Ampton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about five miles north of Bury St Edmunds.According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Amma's homestead. The Domesday Book records the population of Ampton in 1086 to be 23...	870
Beyton Beyton Beyton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is homestead by brook or Beaga's homestead.The Domesday Book records the population of Beyton in 1086 to be 1 free man...	626
Bradfield Combust Bradfield Combust Bradfield Combust is a village in Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name of "Bradfield" is "the wide fold" . "Combust" is derived from "Combusta" Latin fem. = burnt or burned; medieval syn...	800
Bradfield St Clare	1428
Bradfield St George Bradfield St George Bradfield St. George is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the wide field. The Domesday Book records the population of Bradfield St. George in 1086 to be 76 this includes Bradfield Combust and...	2000
Drinkstone Drinkstone Drinkstone is a small settlement in Suffolk, England. It is near the A14 road and is southeast of the town of Bury St Edmunds....	2170
Felsham Felsham Felsham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 its population was 420.-History:The origin of the name "Felsham" is not clear, but one theory gives its meaning as Faela or "pleasant enclosure". Felsham was listed as Fealsham in the Domesday...	1605
Fornham St Genevieve Fornham St Genevieve Fornham St Genevieve is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around 500m north of Fornham_St_Martin and a mile and half north of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 110...	700
Fornham St Martin Fornham St Martin Fornham St Martin is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the northern outskirts of Bury St Edmunds off east and west from the A134, in 2005 its population was 1300...	1200
Gedding Gedding Gedding is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around six miles south east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 130....	502
Great Barton Great Barton Great Barton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about three miles from Bury St Edmunds. According to Eilert Ekwall, the meaning of the village name is barley enclosure/demesne farm or outlying grange...	3500
Great Welnetham	1409
Hessett Hessett Hessett is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles south east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 490....	1568
Little Welnetham	570
Livermere Magna	1580
Pakenham Pakenham, Suffolk Pakenham is a village in the English county of Suffolk.It is to the east of Bury St. Edmunds and it administered as part of the borough of St Edmundsbury, until local government reorganisation in 1974 it was part of Thingoe Rural District...	3696
Rattlesden Rattlesden Rattlesden is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles west of Stowmarket, the parish also includes the hamlets of Hightown Green and Poystreet Green. Its large and ancient church, St. Nicholas, dates from the 13th century and...	3200
Rougham Rougham Rougham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.It covers an area of and had a population of 152 in 69 households as of the 2001 census.For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland....	3846
Rushbrooke Rushbrooke Rushbrooke is an urban area on the western side of Cobh on Great Island in Cork Harbour, Ireland. It is in the townland of Ringacoltig .The townland is Ringacoltig, an anglicised version of the original Irish name....	1066
Stanningfield Stanningfield Stanningfield is a village in the parish of Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield, in the St Edmundsbury District, in the English county of Suffolk. The village also consists of the area Hoggard's Green...	1431
Thurston Thurston, Suffolk Thurston is a village in Suffolk situated about four miles east of Bury St Edmunds. As of mid-2005, Thurston's estimated population was 3,260. It is recorded in the Domesday book as Thurstuna and Torstuna.-Services:...	2400
Timworth Timworth Timworth is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around two miles north of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 50....	1220
Tostock Tostock Tostock is a small village around eight miles east of Bury St. Edmunds in the county of Suffolk. It is a very traditional Suffolk village, with a good example of a fourteenth century church....	975
Woolpit Woolpit Woolpit is a village in the English county of Suffolk, midway between the towns of Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket As of 2007 it has a population of 2030. It is notable for the 12th-century legend of the green children of Woolpit and for its parish church, which has especially fine medieval woodwork...	2000

See also

• Hundreds of Suffolk
  Hundreds of Suffolk
  The county of Suffolk 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...
  
  
• Thedwastre Rural District
  Thedwastre Rural District
  Thedwastre was a rural district in West Suffolk, England from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894, from the part of the Stow Rural Sanitary District which was in West Suffolk...