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The Hundred of Underditch

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Hundred
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Information
County: Salisbury
Ruler: Ellen
Heir apparent: Robert
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Estate: Baron of The Rock
Sheriff: None
Bailiff: Daind
 
Heraldry
Blazon: [[Underditch#Heraldry|]]
 
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Underditch hundred was granted to Salisbury as part of the original Honour of Sarum Upon the Rock. It has traditionally been held by the Bishop of Salisbury but under Uther's time there was no such position. Roderick re-instituted the Bishopry during his last years, and has followed the tradition to lease most of the land in Underditch to the church.

Underditch is believed to take its name from a ditch, which, in Hoare's time, ran eastwards uphill from the Avon to the Salisbury-Amesbury road. It's now a days called "Windryder's Dyke" and is the location for the hundred courts.

Places of note

Manors in the hundred

  • Durnfor
  • Lake
  • Normanton
  • Stratford, held by the Bishop of Salisbury
  • Wilsford
  • Woodford