Leyland Hundred (también conocido como Leylandshire ) es una subdivisión histórica del condado inglés de Lancashire . Cubría las parroquias de Brindle , Chorley , Croston , Eccleston , Hoole , Leyland , Penwortham , Rufford , Standish y Tarleton . [1]
En el Domesday Book, el área se registró como 'Lailand' Hundred, [2] con Chorley Parish en Warmundestrou Hundred [3] y Eccleston Parish en Duddeston Hundred, [4] todos incluidos en las declaraciones de Cheshire . [5] Sin embargo, no se puede decir claramente que haya sido parte de Cheshire. [6] [7] [8]
Certainly there were links between Cheshire and south Lancashire before 1000, when Wulfric Spot held lands in both territories. Wulfric's estates remained grouped together after his death, when they were left to his brother Aelfhelm, and indeed there still seems to have been some kind of connexion in 1086, when south Lancashire was surveyed together with Cheshire by the Domesday commissioners. Nevertheless, the two territories do seem to have been distinguished from one another in some way and it is not certain that the shire-moot and the reeves referred to in the south Lancashire section of Domesday were the Cheshire ones.
The Domesday Survey (1086) included south Lancashire with Cheshire for convenience, but the Mersey, the name of which means 'boundary river' is known to have divided the kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia and there is no doubt that this was the real boundary.
