A group to enable researchers to Seek and to Share Family, Social and Local History information in the old Bath Forum Hundred area of Somerset. (This also includes the Hundreds of CLAVERTON and HAMPTON which existed inside the Bath Forum Area according to the Somerset Archives Hundreds Map - Genuki reports Claverton as a village in Hampton Hundred.) Picture is of St Swithin's Church WALCOT - formerly the largest Parish in England.
From GENUKI
"BATH FORUM HUNDRED, one of the 40 hundreds or subdivisions of the county of Somerset, situated in the eastern division of the county, and bounded on the N. by the county of Gloucester, on the E. by Wiltshire, on the S. by the hundred of Wellow, and on the W. by the hundred of Keynsham. It contains the city of Bath, and the parishes of Batheaston, Bathford, Bathwick, St. Katherine Freshford, Kelston, Langridge, Lyncombe and Widcombe, Moncktoncombe, North Stoke, South Stoke, Swainswick, Weston, and Woolley. It comprises an area, exclusive of the city, of about 15,600 acres."
Somerset Family History serves as a central entry point for the 40 Somerset Hundreds and will receive announcements of all file uploads to the 40 Hundreds.
Link:
Somerset Family History A link to a map of the hundreds is available in the links section.
A link to the
Vision of Britain page for BATH FORUM Hundred is given below in Related Link