Leyland Hundred

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{{infobox historic subdivision

| Name = Hundred of Leyland

| HQ = Eccleston

| subdivision_type = Lancashire Hundred

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| Image = 110px

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| Status = Ancient Hundred

| Start = Before Domesday

| End = Mid-18th century, never formally abolished

| Replace =

| coordinates = {{coord|53.686|-2.657|display=inline,title|region:GB_scale:200000}}

| AreaLast = {{convert|79,990|acres|km2|0}}

| AreaLastYear = 1831

| Map = 250px
Leyland Hundred depicted in John Speed's 1610 map of Lancashire

| Divisions = Parish(es)

| DivisionsNames = Leyland • Penwortham • Brindle • Croston • Hesketh-With-Becconsall • Tarleton • Rufford • Chorley • Hoole • Eccleston • Standish

}}

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The Leyland Hundred (also known as Leylandshire) is a historic subdivision of the English county of Lancashire. It covered the parishes of Brindle, Chorley, Croston, Eccleston, Hoole, Leyland, Penwortham, Rufford, Standish and Tarleton.{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10194192 |title=Leyland Hundred through time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |work=visionofbritain.org.uk |accessdate=20 January 2016}}

In the Domesday Book the area was recorded as 'Lailand' Hundred,[https://opendomesday.org/hundred/leyland/ Open Domesday: Leyland Hundred.] Accessed 23 July 2022. included in the returns for Cheshire.Morgan (1978) page 270a. However, it cannot be said clearly to have been part of Cheshire.Harris and Thacker (1987). They write on page 252: {{quotation|Certainly there were links between Cheshire and south Lancashire before 1000, when Wulfric Spot held lands in both territories. Wulfric's estates remained grouped together after his death, when they were left to his brother Aelfhelm, and indeed there still seems to have been some kind of connexion in 1086, when south Lancashire was surveyed together with Cheshire by the Domesday commissioners. Nevertheless, the two territories do seem to have been distinguished from one another in some way and it is not certain that the shire-moot and the reeves referred to in the south Lancashire section of Domesday were the Cheshire ones.}}Phillips and Phillips (2002). pp. 26–31.Crosby, A. (1996). writes on page 31: {{quotation|The Domesday Survey (1086) included south Lancashire with Cheshire for convenience, but the Mersey, the name of which means 'boundary river' is known to have divided the kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia and there is no doubt that this was the real boundary.}}