Flendish Hundred


Flendish Hundred is a pre-Norman administrative division of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. The Hundreds of England were intermediate administrative divisions, larger than villages and smaller than shires, that survived until the 19th century. It was likely created in the early 10th century.
Flendish was first recorded in the Domesday Book and has had many names. In the 11th century Flendish hundred contained four vills, later divided into five parishes: Fulbourn, Teversham, Hinton, and Horningsea.
Fleam Dyke was probably the base from which the forces of King Edward the Elder began to ravage the lands of the East Anglian Danes in 903. These campaigns ended by 920 with his subjugation of the southern Danelaw.
Today its name lives on as Fleam Dyke

Alternative Spellings

Before English spelling was formalised, the spelling varied considerably showing the Germanic, Norse and Flemish cultural influences of East Anglia before the time when English was declared England's language by Edward III.
Flendish Hundred
Flamingdice, Flammindic, Flammidinc, Flammiding 1086 DB
Flammincdic, Flammigedic, Flammicgedic, Flammingedich, Flammedigedig 1086 InqEl
Flamencdic 1086 ICC
Flammedich 1155-7 P
Flamedich 1175-9 P, 1251 ElyCouch, 1277 Ely, 14th Cai
Flaundishe 1553 Pat
Flemdich, Flemdych 1188 P et freq to, 1523 SR
Flemesdich 1218 SR, 1284 FA, 1298 Ass
Flemedic 1218 SR
Flemdik, Flemdyk 1268, 1285 Ass
Flemsdich 1279 RH
Flemdisch 1372 SR
Flemdysh 1457 IpmR, 1523 SR
Flendiche 1428 FA, 1570 SR
Flendishe, Flendyshe t. Hy 6 Cole xxxvii, 1560 Depositions
Flendick 1570 SR
Flyndiche 1553 Pat
Flyndysshe 1557 Pat