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    The Hundred of Bempstone is one of the 40 historical Hundreds in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, dating from before the Norman conquest during...
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    Brean (category Beaches of Somerset)
    Brean. Brean was part of the hundred of Bempstone. During the Bristol Channel floods of 1607 the village was flooded, with seven of its nine houses being...
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    Burnham-on-Sea (category Beaches of Somerset)
    Burnham was part of the hundred of Bempstone. One of the earliest recorded incidents to affect the town was the Bristol Channel floods of 1607, since when...
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    Wedmore (redirect from Isle of Wedmore)
    Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum. Alfred then left Wedmore in his will to his son Edward the Elder. Wedmore was part of the hundred of Bempstone. Earthworks...
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    Cathedral by 1157 and continued until 1547. Mark was part of the hundred of Bempstone. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including...
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    Bishop of Wells. Chapel Allerton was part of the hundred of Bempstone. Chapel Allerton forms part of Sedgemoor district and is located southwest of Cheddar...
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    1548 and was largely demolished soon afterwards. Weare was part of the hundred of Bempstone. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including...
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    Risborough and Stone hundreds Buckingham Hundred Cottesloe Hundred Newport Hundred Burnham Hundred Desborough Hundred Stoke Hundred Cambridgeshire was divided...
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    was part of the Bempstone hundred. A map of Winterstoake Hundred from the year 1645 shows the village name as Baddesworh; on the map, the hundred contains...
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    Sedgemoor. Its neighbouring hundreds were Chewton to the north; Whitstone to the east; Glaston Twelve-hides to the south; and Bempstone and Winterstoke to the...
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