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[[File:Isleworth Hundred in Middlesex.svg|thumbnail|Location of Isleworth Hundred within Middlesex]]'''Isleworth Hundred''' was a [[hundred (subdivision)|subdivision]] of the [[Historic counties of England|historic county]] of [[Middlesex]], [[England]].  In ''[[Domesday Book]]'' (1086) it was recorded as ''Hundeslaw Hundred'' ("[[Hounslow]] Hundred" in modern spelling).<ref>"[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22269 The hundred of Isleworth]", ''A History of the County of Middlesex'': Volume 3, (1962), accessed 6 January 2008.</ref>

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It contained three parishes, whose acreage and square miles area is given as at the 1870s-1880s:<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1043| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130517113932/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1043| archive-date = 2013-05-17| title = History of Heston, in Hounslow and Middlesex {{!}} Map and description}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/274| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130807220259/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/274| archive-date = 2013-08-07| title = History of Twickenham, in Richmond upon Thames and Middlesex {{!}} Map and description}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1803| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150928182758/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1803| archive-date = 2015-09-28| title = History of Isleworth, in Hounslow and Middlesex {{!}} Map and description}}</ref>

{|
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|[[Heston]]||3720 acres||= {{convert|15.1|km2}}
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|[[Isleworth]]||3143 acres||= {{convert|12.7|km2}}
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|[[Twickenham]]||2249 acres||= {{convert|9.1|km2}}
|}

In 1801 Middlesex measured 734&nbsp;km².<ref name=vic_pop>{{cite web | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22159 | title=Table of population, 1801-1901 | publisher=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 22 | year=1911 | accessdate= 20 February 2008}}</ref> This, the smallest of the county's six hundreds, amounted to 5% of that area.

The hundred's name means 'enclosure of Gislhere'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Isleworth|title=Key to English Place-names}}</ref>

All of the above area in earliest records was exceptionally part of one manor, that of Isleworth based at [[Syon Abbey]].<ref name=vch_hundred/> The ownership separated in the middle of the medieval centuries; that of Heston was inherited from marriage of the daughter of [[Francis Child (died 1713)|Francis Child]] by the [[Earl of Jersey]] (with the Childs-Villier and later Villier surname) until the 20th century seated at the house built by Child employing [[Robert Adam]], [[Osterley House]] in the north-east of Isleworth parish. The others two main manors fell into the hands of the [[Duke of Northumberland]] (with the surname Percy) who took over the abbey's demense and built [[Syon House]] in the east of in Isleworth.<ref name=vch_hundred>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol3/pp83-84|title=The hundred of Isleworth &#124; British History Online}}</ref> The Domesday Book of 1086 names the unit (in its heavily abbreviated fusion of Latin and French) '''Hounslow Hundred''', a term never found again. [[Hampton, London|Hampton]] to the south-west was stated to be under Hounslow [[Hundred Court]] at that date. In the many [[Feet of Fines]], [[Assize Rolls]], [[subsidy roll]]s and other central government and manorial court documents, save for a similar reference to Isleworth Hundred in a charter of the 12th century, Hampton is listed as unequivocally part of [[Spelthorne Hundred]]. This is explained by the abbey's and then the Percy family's holdings there.<ref name=vch_hundred/>

Further named clusters of buildings (sometimes termed [[hamlet (place)|hamlets]]) emerged during its relevant currency:
*[[Hounslow]] which was from the 16th century straddled the divide between the first-two named parishes.  
*[[Whitton, London|Whitton]] in the parish of Twickenham
*North Hyde in the parish of Heston
*Sutton in the parish of Heston
*Lampton in the parish of Heston
*Worton in the parish of Isleworth
*Wyke in the parish of Isleworth
*Scrattage (now part of Osterley) in the parish of Heston<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/Heston|title = Genuki: Heston, Middlesex}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol3/pp85-94|title = Heston and Isleworth: Introduction &#124; British History Online}}</ref>

==See also==
Other Middlesex hundreds:
*[[Elthorne Hundred|Elthorne]]
*[[Spelthorne Hundred|Spelthorne]]
*[[Gore Hundred|Gore]]
*[[Ossulstone (hundred)|Ossulston or Ossulstone]]
*[[Edmonton Hundred|Edmonton]]

==References==
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