page_title: List of hundreds of England and Wales
section_title: Yorkshire
hierarchical_section_title: List of hundreds of England and Wales / Yorkshire
caption_attribution_description: English: Administrative map of Yorkshire in 1832 showing Ridings and Wapentakes. Also showing extant Boroughs and the County of Itself of Hull. Wapentake boundaries from University of Nottingham English Place Name Society. Source data for parish boundaries - Kain, R.J.P., and Oliver, R.R. (2001) "Historic parishes of England and Wales". Unit names from Vision of Britain website.
context_page_description: Most of the counties of England were divided into hundreds from the late Saxon period and these were, with a few exceptions, effectively abandoned as administrative divisions in the 19th century. in some areas, equivalent districts were known as "wapentakes".
  In Wales a similar Celtic system of division called cantrefi had existed for centuries and was of particular importance in the administration of the Welsh law. Following the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, Wales was divided into hundreds to be consistent with England.
context_section_description: Yorkshire has three Ridings, East, North and West.  Each of these was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds.
  The Ainsty wapentake, first associated with the West Riding, became associated in the fifteenth century with the City of York, outside the Riding system.
  The hundreds of Amounderness and Lonsdale in Lancashire plus part of Westmorland were considered as part of Yorkshire in the Domesday Book.
caption: Yorkshire in 1832
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