Thedwastre Hundred

{{short description|Hundred of the county of Suffolk, England}}

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Thedwastre (also Thedwestry) was a hundred of the county of Suffolk, England covering an area of {{convert|40362|acre|km2}}. It formed part of the Liberty of Saint Edmund, under the jurisdiction of the abbots of Bury St Edmunds.

The hundred is about {{convert|12|mi|km|spell=in}} in length and {{convert|6|mi|km|spell=in}} wide. It is bounded on the west by the borough of Bury St Edmunds and Thingoe Hundred, on the north and east by Blackbourn and Stow Hundreds, and on the south by Cosford and Babergh Hundreds. It is a fertile district with undulating terrain, and watered by streams which rise within its limits and feed the rivers Thet, Gipping, Lark and Brett.{{cite book|title=History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk|author=William White|date=1844|page=301|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgxIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA301}}

It is in the Deanery of Thedwestry, the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, the Diocese of Ely and Liberty of St Edmund. It contains no town of any size, but Bury and Ixworth are on its borders.

Listed as Theivardestreu in the Domesday Book of 1086, the name derives from "Theodward's tree", presumably a notable tree where the Hundred Court used to meet in Thurston.{{cite book|title=The Place-names of Suffolk|author=Walter Skeat|date=1913|url=https://archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuff00skearich/placenamesofsuff00skearich_djvu.txt|access-date=2016-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810001025/http://www.archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuff00skearich/placenamesofsuff00skearich_djvu.txt|archive-date=2016-08-10|url-status=live}}