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Blackheath was an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England. Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; the name "Blackheath" now refers to a locality of SE London.〔Mills, A., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001)〕 Its former area now corresponds to the Royal Borough of Greenwich, the London Borough of Lewisham and part of the London Borough of Bromley. ==History== The name is first recorded as ''Blachehedfeld'' in 1166, meaning ''dark-coloured heathland''.〔 The open space at Blackheath was the site of hundred meetings.〔 In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as the hundred of ''Grenviz'' (Greenwich),〔(British History Online ) - The Hundred of Blackheath〕 which was part of the lathe of Sutton at Hone.〔(Vision of Britain ) - Blackheath hundred〕 The hundred contained the parishes of Charlton, Chislehurst, St Paul and St Nicholas Deptford, Eltham, Greenwich, Kidbrooke, Lee, Lewisham, Woolwich and Mottingham. The northern boundary with the Becontree hundred of Essex was mainly the River Thames; however there was also a short land boundary as the parish of Woolwich included two small exclaves north of the river,〔(British History Online ) - Map of Becontree Hundred, (1973)〕 totalling .〔(British History Online ) - The Origin of North Woolwich, (1973)〕 Also to the north along the river was a short boundary with the Isle of Dogs and the Tower division of the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex.〔(British History Online ) - Map of Blackheath Hundred, (1973)〕 In the west it bordered the Brixton hundred of Surrey. Within Kent, it was bounded by the hundreds of Bromley and Beckenham to the south, Ruxley to the south east and Lesnes to the east.〔 In 1831, the hundred occupied .〔(Vision of Britain ) - Blackheath hundred - area ((historic map ))〕 The parishes of St Paul and St Nicholas, Deptford and the parish of Greenwich were included in the Metropolitan Police District by the Metropolitan Police Act 1829, and in 1840 the rest of the hundred was included by the Metropolitan Police Act 1839. The population is recorded as 121,753in 1851 and 187,696 in 1861.〔John Marius Wilson, ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'', (1870-72)〕 In 1887 the hundred is recorded as occupying an area of , with a population of 234,987.〔John Bartholomew, ''Gazetteer of the British Isles'', (1887)〕 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「Hundred of Blackheath, Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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