Colneis Hundred

{{Short description|Historical division of Suffolk, England}}

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Colneis{{pronunciation?}} is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of {{convert|16712|acre|km2}}.{{cite book|title=History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk|author=William White|date=1844|page=119|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgxIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA119}}

Running from the south-east outskirts of Ipswich to the North Sea coast, the hundred is made up of the land between the estuaries of the rivers Orwell and Deben. It is one of the smallest in Suffolk, being only about {{convert|4|mi|km|spell=in}} wide and {{convert|10|mi|km|spell=in}} long between its border with Carlford Hundred and the cliffs at Felixstowe. It lies within the Colneis Deanery, in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk. It was one of seven Saxon hundreds grouped together as the Wicklaw Hundreds.{{cite journal |last1=Williamson |first1=Tom |title=New Light on Rendlesham |journal=The Historian |date=2018 |issue=139 |publisher=The Historical Association}}

Listed as Colneyse in the Domesday Book, the origin of the name is not known for sure, though the suffix -ness, meaning "headland" seems probable. The col may be the old name of the Deben before its renaming after Debenham.{{cite book|title=The Place-names of Suffolk|author=Walter Skeat|date=1913|url=https://archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuff00skearich/placenamesofsuff00skearich_djvu.txt}}

The name survives as that of a Junior School in Felixstowe.