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Copthorne was a hundred of Surrey, England, an area above the level of the parishes and manors, where the local wise, wealthy and powerful met periodically in Anglo-Saxon England for strategic purposes.〔(Surrey ''Domesday Book'' )〕 After the Norman Conquest the lords of the manor took to annual hundred meetings and their status became eroded by royal-approved transactions of land, as meanwhile the manorial courts and moreover royal courts seized jurisdiction over the Hundred Courts.〔 ==Scope== Copthorne comprised the manors of Ashtead, Burgh, Cuddington, Epsom, Ewell, Fetcham, Headley, Leatherhead, Mickleham, Pachevesham (within Leatherhead parish), Tadworth, Thorncroft and Walton-on-the-Hill.〔(Domesday book )〕 It had two exclaves, areas of other parishes dominated by manors and sometimes churches within it: in Weybridge and Newdigate.〔 In the ''Domesday Book'', the settlements of Ashtead, Fetcham and Mickleham were included in the Wallington (hundred), which the line of county historians cited by the Victoria County History of 1911 who have examined the Patent Rolls and similar state collections of deeds, royal letters and documents, such as Owen Manning and John Aubrey agree was by mistake. In present terms Epsom, Leatherhead and Ewell are almost uniformly called towns, such as at the county level of local government when it considers service provision and population analysis — the first two were granted market town status in the Middle Ages. The Victoria County History, based on ecclesiastical records states these were its parishes: *Ashtead 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Copthorne Hundred」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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