Gore Hundred


Gore was a hundred of the historic county of Middlesex, England.

Scope and importance

It covered an area in the north of the county, in present London Boroughs roughly that of Harrow, one third of Barnet and about a third of Brent. Per the relatively frequent central medieval records of all major estates including the Domesday Book, Feet of Fines, Assize Rolls and subsidy rolls its parishes were:
ParishPart of hundred covered
EdgwareSmall parish along northern border
HarrowWestern two-fifths of the hundred roughly. The parent parish of Wembley, Alperton and Sudbury.
HendonEastern third of the hundred approximately
KingsburySmall parish on the near, southern border of the Hundred
Great StanmoreStrip parish in the north, adjoining Harrow and others
Little StanmoreStrip parish in the north, adjoining Edgware and others
PinnerA chapelry of Harrow until 1766. The north-west quarter of Harrow.

By the end of the 15th century some 22 manors were in the Hundred. From an early date the jurisdiction exercised by the hundred was minuscule. Only Great Stanmore of the manors did not at some times before 1300 enjoy or claim exemption from the Hundred Court. Free and frank rights instead include two known sets of franchies: those of Westminster Abbey and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and view of frankpledge and other liberties to the noble owner of Edgware and to St Bart's Priory, Smithfield, London who acquired Little Stanmore.