Hundreds of Bedfordshire
Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century Bedfordshire was divided for administrative purposes into 9 hundreds, plus the borough of Bedford.Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.[2] Until 1574 one sheriff covered Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, the shire court of the former being held at Bedford.Flitt was parcel of the manor of Luton, and formed part of the marriage portion of Eleanor, sister of Henry III and wife of William Marshall.[1] At the start of the 19th century, the hundreds contained the following parishes:[3] Three of the parishes above were in fact historically part of Huntingdonshire until they were incorporated into Bedfordshire in the late 19th century, though each was considered part of a Bedfordshire hundred.