Barton Regis Hundred

{{Short description|Former administrative division in Gloucestershire, England}}

{{Distinguish|text=King's Barton, a hundred adjacent to Gloucester city}}

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Barton Regis was an ancient hundred of Gloucestershire, England. Hundreds originated in the late Saxon period as a subdivision of a county and lasted as administrative divisions until the 19th century.{{cite book |last1= Webb |first1= Sidney |authorlink1=Sidney Webb |last2=Webb |first2=Beatrice |authorlink2=Beatrice Webb |title=English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: the parish and the county |url= https://archive.org/details/englishlocalgove01webbuoft |publisher= Longmans Green and Company |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/englishlocalgove01webbuoft/page/284 284]–285|year= 1906}}

It comprised the three ancient parishes of Clifton, Mangotsfield and Stapleton, all on the outskirts of the city of Bristol, plus the Bristol parishes of St George, St Philip & St Jacob and St James Out.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U285AQAAMAAJ&q=Constable+of+Swineshead+Hundred&pg=PA170|title=Abstract of the Answers and Returns Made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in the 43d Year of His Majesty King George III, Intituled "An Act for Procuring Returns Relative to the Expence and Maintenance of the Poor in England".|date=1803|language=en}} The hundred took its name from the manor of Barton just outside Bristol, mentioned in the Domesday Book as Bertune apud Bristov,{{Cite web |url=http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST5973/barton-regis/ |title=Domesday Map, Barton Regis |access-date=2011-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328075730/http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST5973/barton-regis/ |archive-date=2012-03-28 |url-status=dead }} and later in 1220 as Berton Bristoll.{{Ekwall|29}} In Saxon and early Norman times the manor was held by the king, and was known as Barton Regis.

At the time of the Domesday Book, Barton Regis was part of the neighbouring hundred of Swineshead.{{Cite web|url=http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/county/gloucestershire/|title=Gloucestershire {{!}} Domesday Book|website=www.domesdaymap.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228171923/http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/county/gloucestershire/|archive-date=2017-12-28|url-status=dead}}

In 1836 the hundred became the basis of a new Poor Law Union, which also included additional parishes north and west of Bristol.{{cite web|title=Barton Regis Gloucestershire|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20058|website=A Vision of Britain|publisher=University of Portsmouth|accessdate=1 November 2016}} The Poor Law Union did not include Mangotsfield (part of Keynsham Union), or the central areas of Bristol (exempted from the 1836 poor law changes as an existing Incorporation).[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Bristol_Poor_Law_Unions,England Family Search: Bristol Poor Law Unions, England] The Poor Law Union was initially named Clifton Union, but was changed in 1877 to Barton Regis Union, because the residents of Clifton objected to the poor mortality statistics associated with the name of Clifton resulting from the inclusion of poorer areas in east Bristol.{{cite book|last=Latimer|first=John|title=The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century|year=1887|pages=493–494|url=https://archive.org/stream/annalsbristolin00latigoog#page/n504/mode/2up/search/Barton+Regis}} In 1875, the parts of the Poor Law Union outside Bristol formed the basis of the Barton Regis rural sanitary district, which was replaced by Barton Regis Rural District in 1894. The rural district was abolished in 1904, when it was split between Bristol City Council, Chipping Sodbury RD and Thornbury RD.{{London Gazette |issue=27619 |date=24 November 1903 |pages=7633–7635 }}

In 1877 Clifton registration district, used for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, was replaced by Barton Regis Registration District. The Barton Regis Registration District included most of the area of the Barton Regis Poor Law Union, and therefore included Bristol north of the Avon, outside the central area. The district was abolished in 1905, when most of it became part of Bristol Registration District.[http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/barton%20regis.html GENUKI: Barton Regis Registration District]

The name survives in the district of Barton Hill.