Patton (hundred)

Patton Patinton
Hundred of Shropshire
History
• Origin	Organisation of Mercia into shires
• Created	early 10th century
• Abolished	c. 1100-35
• Succeeded by	Hundred of Munslow
Status	Hundred
Government	Caput (in 1066 & 1086)
• HQ	Corfham (extraterritorial)
Contained within
• County	Shropshire
Subdivisions
• Type	Tithings & (later) Manors
• Units	27 manors (in 1086)

Patton was a hundred of Shropshire, England. Formed during Anglo-Saxon England, it encompassed manors in eastern central Shropshire, and was amalgamated during the reign of Henry I (1100 to 1135) with the neighbouring hundred of Culvestan to form the Munslow hundred.

It included the upper Corvedale and the well-populated manors of Wenlock, Stoke and Ditton. The original folkmoot place, which gave its name to the hundred, was Patton, a manor recorded as being part of the hundred in the 1086 Domesday Book.

Patton is written in the Domesday Book variously as Patinton(e) or Patintun(e).

Following the Norman conquest of England, many of the manors in the hundreds of Patton and Culvestan were owned by Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. One of Montgomerie's holdings, Corfham was already by 1066 (when it was held by King Edward) the caput (the centre of administration) not only for Culvestan (the manor of Corfham being in that hundred) but also Patton. It is believed that by the 12th century the caput for both hundreds was moved to another of Montgomerie's holdings, Aston, 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest from Corfham Castle on the other side of the River Corve. Aston (a manor also in Culvestan) was near the tumulus known as Munslow and the place later became known as Aston Munslow.

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