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Difino
| • | Before the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 introduced the local government unit of the Poor Law Union, or, commonly, Union, which influenced the subsequent shape of local government divisions, the county of Dorset had since the Anglo-Saxon period been divided into hundreds and boroughs (and from the mediaeval period, liberties as well). While numerous minor changes took place during that period, the general pattern remained stable. The subdivisions below within hundreds and liberties are the old civil parishes, into which the tithings (the original sub-divisions of the hundreds) came to be fitted.
(Civil parish is used here in the sense of an "area for which a poor rate is or can be assessed", a unit which has thus been in existence de facto from the establishment of the Elizabethan Poor Law; the term itself dates from mid 19th century legislation such as the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866).The following are the units existing immediately prior to the Act of 1834, with some additional changes noted up to the reforms of the Local Government Act 1894 and their immediate aftermath.
Prior to the 1834 Act, the hundreds were grouped, mostly for taxation purposes, by divisions, which were rearranged by local Act of Parliament in 1830. See List of divisions in Dorset.
Source: [wikipedia: list of hundreds in dorset]
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