Everything about Lonsdale Hundred totally explained
Lonsdale was a
hundred of
Lancashire,
England. For many decades, it covered most of the northwestern part of Lancashire around
Morecambe Bay, including the detached part around
Furness, and the city of
Lancaster.
The name Lonsdale refers to the
River Lune which flowed through the southern part of the hundred.
Places in the Lonsdale hundred included Lancaster,
Bolton-le-Sands,
Barrow-in-Furness,
Dalton-in-Furness,
Cockerham,
Ulverston, and
Morecambe. The
Furness Peninsula was known as
Lonsdale North of the Sands, the major part of which later constituted (from 1894 to 1974) the
North Lonsdale Rural District.
In 1831, the population of males over twenty years old was given as 10,707, meaning the total population would likely be over 20,000 during that year.
Kirkby Lonsdale despite its name wasn't in the hundred as it lay in the Lonsdale Ward of
Westmorland instead; and the villages of
Burton-in-Lonsdale and Thornton-in-Lonsdale were within the
North Riding of Yorkshire. These anomalies stem from the fact that the hundred once covered a larger area and is in fact more
ancient than the county of Lancashire, being documented as part of
Yorkshire in the
Domesday Book.
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