title: Bledisloe Hundred
text: # Bledisloe Hundred
  
  Bledisloe was an ancient hundred of Gloucestershire, England. It comprised the ancient parishes of
  
  * Alvington
  * Awre
  * Lydney
  
  The hundred was named after the hamlet of Bledisloe, once a tithing of the parish of Awre and now a hamlet north of Lydney on the A48 road, where the hundred met. The meeting place was a mound known as Bledisloe Tump.
  
  At the time of the Domesday Book the hundred included Awre manor, Bledisloe, Etloe, Purton and Nass. Alvington (previously a detached part of Herefordshire) and Lydney joined the hundred by 1221.
  
  