Munslow (hundred)

Munslow
Hundred of Shropshire
Munslow shown (in grey) within Shropshire
Area
• 1831	84,500 acres (34,200 ha)
• 1868	103,750 acres (41,990 ha)
Area transferred
• c. 1200	Places with Priory connection to Wenlock
• 1836	Five from Wenlock's detached parts
- 1895	Ludford (remainder) from Wolphy
History
• Preceded by	Anglo-Saxon hundreds of Culvestan & Patton
• Origin	12th century reforms of the county's hundreds
• Created	c. 1100-35
• Succeeded by	elected parish & district councils (Local Government Act 1894)
Status	Hundred (obsolete since 1895)
Government	Hundred court
• HQ	(Aston) Munslow
Contained within
• County	Shropshire
Subdivisions
• Type	Divisions
• Units	Upper and Lower

Munslow is a hundred of Shropshire, England. It was formed with the amalgamation of the Anglo-Saxon hundreds of Patton and Culvestan during the reign of Henry I (1100 to 1135). Hundreds in England had various judicial, fiscal and other local government functions, their importance gradually declining from the end of manorialism to the latter part of the 19th century.

The hundred is named after the village of Munslow, where the hundred's judicial and administrative functions were mostly carried out. The 'hundred house' for Munslow hundred was originally located in neighbouring Aston Munslow, but from the Tudor period was located in Munslow itself.

The hundred was divided into "upper" and "lower" divisions (the "lower" division being considerably larger). The hundred reached from All Stretton to the north, down the valleys of the rivers Onny, Corve and Teme, to the Herefordshire border south and west of Ludlow.

Three towns came to exist in the hundred — Ludlow (established alongside Ludlow Castle in the early 12th century), Church Stretton (granted a market charter in 1214) and Craven Arms (which grew as a railway town in Victorian times).

The hundred has no detached parts, although the part consisting of Richard's Castle, Ashford Carbonell and Ashford Bowdler was practically detached, until the transfer of the remainder of Ludford in 1895. The liberty of Wenlock had three true enclaves within Munslow (the main part of the parish of Eaton together with Millichope, secondly the parish of Shipton, and a tiny third enclave being the township of Norncott) until reform of its borough in 1836 incorporated these parts into Munslow.