Binfield Hundred

BINFIELD HUNDRED, one of the fifteen hundreds or subdivisions of the county of Oxford, situated in the south-eastern part of the county, and bounded on the N. by the hundreds of Ewelme and Pirton; on the E. by the counties of Buckingham and Berks; on the S. by the county of Berks; and on the W. by the, hundred of Langtree. It contains the parishes of Bix, Caversham, Harpsden, Henley-upon-Thames, Grays Rotherfield, Peppard Rotherfield, and Shiplake, with part of the parish of Sonning. The area of the hundred is about 23,000 acres.

"KINGWOOD COMMON, in the hundred of Binfield, county Oxford, 4 miles W. of Henley-upon-Thames."

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003