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226:"Administrative Units Typology | Status definition: Hundred"
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588:Hundred of Tintinhull
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458:Hundred of Carhampton
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639:Hundreds of Somerset
608:Hundred of Whitstone
538:Hundred of Milverton
528:Hundred of Kingsbury
488:Glaston Twelve Hides
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438:Hundred of Bempstone
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563:Hundred of Portbury
518:Hundred of Keynsham
428:Andersfield Hundred
304:"Somerset Hundreds"
228:. Vision of Britain
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232:31 January
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186:References
142:King Edgar
278:"Summary"
176:districts
149:Huntspill
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633:Category
412:Somerset
306:. GENUKI
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118:Hundreds
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