• The Hundred of Carhampton is one of the 40 historical Hundreds in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, dating from before the Norman conquest during...
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    of the hundred of Carhampton. The title of Earl of Carhampton was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1785, but became extinct upon the death of the 3rd...
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    Dunster (category Beaches of Somerset)
    it had a population of 817. There are Iron Age hillforts in the area. Saxon Dunster was a parish in the Hundred of Carhampton. In the Domesday book...
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    Porlock (category Beaches of Somerset)
    Porlock was part of the hundred of Carhampton. The area has links with several Romantic poets, and R. D. Blackmore, the author of Lorna Doone, and is...
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    Luccombe these passed to the Acland family. Luccombe was part of the hundred of Carhampton. In 1944 Sir Richard Acland gave the Holnicote Estate, which...
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    Kilton, and the hundred of Carhampton from Lady Mohun, the wife of Sir John V de Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun (c.1320–1375), feudal baron of Dunster. Dunster...
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    Minehead (category Ports and harbours of Somerset)
    intertidal area, where the remains of a submerged forest still exist. Minehead was part of the hundred of Carhampton. It is mentioned as a manor belonging...
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    Selworthy (category Beaches of Somerset)
    Selworthy was part of the hundred of Carhampton. Selworthy was rebuilt as a model village, to provide housing for the aged and infirm of the Holnicote estate...
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    1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00669.x. Savage, James (1830). History of the Hundred of Carhampton. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green. Robinson, Stephen (1992)...
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    Badby (category History of Northamptonshire)
    James (1830). History of the hundred of Carhampton. Bristol. Domesday Book entry for Badby Parish Badby appraisal see page 5 of Parish 2000 Badby Appraisal...
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    "Alresford – forda Ralph de Limesy Mill". The parish was part of the hundred of Carhampton. One of the village's main attractions is the much-photographed packhorse...
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  • Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (1743–1821) Hugh Luttrell (MP, died 1428), English officer of the Hundred Years' War James Luttrell (c. 1751–1788)...
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    parish, is a univallate Iron Age hill fort. Withycombe was part of the hundred of Carhampton. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including...
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    (Edmunds homestead), Stone and Downscombe. The parish was part of the hundred of Carhampton. The bridge over the river was built in 1930 on a medieval site...
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    English treow for tree. Treborough was part of the hundred of Carhampton. Within the village are a pair of lime kilns which date from the early 19th century...
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    The parish includes the hamlet of Bickham. The parish was part of the hundred of Carhampton. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including...
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  • Varieties of Architecture,’ 1812. ‘Memorabilia, or Recollections Historical, Biographical, and Antiquarian,’ 1820. ‘A History of the Hundred of Carhampton, Somerset...
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    Way West and the Celtic Way Exmoor Option. Wootton was part of the hundred of Carhampton. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including...
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    Dunster, Minehead, Cutcombe, Kilton and Carhampton in Somerset, and Ham in Dorset. The historian the Duchess of Cleveland wrote as follows in her 1889...
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    parish councils. In 2011, the population of the parish was 237. Luxborough was part of the hundred of Carhampton. About 100 years ago, people used to mine...
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    ISBN 1-874336-26-1. "Carhampton Hundred". Domesday Map. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2011. A Vision of Britain Through...
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    Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (category Luttrell family (of Dunster))
    location missing publisher (link) James Savage (1830). History of the Hundred of Carhampton. Bristol: William Strong; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown...
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    Book to Honecote, Hunnecota or Hunecota in the hundred of Carhampton. One records land held by one William of the tenant-in-chief, Roger de Corcelle; prior...
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    Risborough and Stone hundreds Buckingham Hundred Cottesloe Hundred Newport Hundred Burnham Hundred Desborough Hundred Stoke Hundred Cambridgeshire was divided...
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    of Tintinhull. Stone was part of the hundred of Carhampton, while East Pennard was part of the Whitstone Hundred. The parish council has responsibility...
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    after the Norman Conquest to William de Mohun of Dunster. Cutcombe was part of the hundred of Carhampton. Cutcombe Market has been a long established livestock...
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    of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 25 January 2017. James Savage, History of the Hundred of Carhampton: in the county of...
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    defeated in a battle against the Vikings at Carhampton in Somerset, but he achieved a major victory at the Battle of Aclea in 851. In 853, he joined a successful...
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    defeated Ecgberht at Carhampton in Somerset, but in 838 he was victorious over an alliance of Cornishmen and Vikings at the Battle of Hingston Down, reducing...
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    Sheppey. In 836, Ecgberht of Wessex met in battle a force of 35 ships at Carhampton, and in 838 he faced a combined force of Vikings and Cornishmen at...
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