Manhood Peninsula

50.7°N 0.8°W / 50.7; -0.8

Hundred of Manhood

History
  Created7th Century
  Abolished19th Century
  Succeeded byChichester District Council
StatusAbolished
Subdivisions
  TypeSeven Parishes
  Units

The Manhood Peninsula is the southwest of West Sussex in England. It has the English Channel to its south and Chichester to the north. It is bordered to its west by Chichester Harbour and to its east by Pagham Harbour, its southern headland being Selsey Bill.

It was, including some hinterland, known as the Hundred of Manwood and the name is a corruption of the latter word. Set up in Anglo-Saxon-dominant England it had its own courts and local government, eroded by the charitable and civic functions of the vestry and waxing and waning of the manorial system the system of hundreds was abolished by Parliament in the 19th century.

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