Elthorne Hundred

The name is a standard contraction in Old English of El(ɘ's) thorn – El likely being a man, perhaps one of the eorls (earls) in the same way as Spelthorne Hundred, adjacent, and the thorn would accurately reflect that most of the land, like Hounslow Heath of today, until and unless manually cleared was covered or underlain as it naturally is here with hawthorns, blackthorns and brambles.The most distinctive of these is the sometimes tree-height genus, the hawthorn, which is in warm months heavy with small white flowers and is endemic to the local gravel-rich soil and banks of rivers across all England save for the north and south-west, where its larger type also extends to.[1][2] Blackthorns are alongside hawthorns the ancient underlayer of the local Ten Acre Wood, an oak plantation.Local councils have not gone so far as to redefine street signs on the basis of equal-electorate electoral wards.They locally take heed of a fusion of long history, wards and numbered postal districts.
Location of the hundred in Middlesex.
All adopted road street signs across Hillingdon pay regard to the normal, common consensus definition of each London district, much of which is based on the old and revised parishes and more particularly the secular Urban Districts and early ward electoral divisions which succeeded them in government.
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