Hundreds

The manors of Harborne and Smethwick were in Offlow Hundred of south Staffordshire, along with Handsworth and Perry : Birmingham, Aston, and Erdington were in the Hundred of Coleshill, which in the C12th became Hemlingford, after the moot place at a Tame ford near Kingsbury. Kings Norton and Northfield were ori-ginally in Came, and Yardley was a detached part of Pershore Hundred : these three Worcestershire manors were later part of Halfshire Hundred. The small size of the Plateau's population a thousand years ago is evidenced by the huge area covered by Coleshill and Offlow - about six times the size of the present city which originally at least, contained only two hundred families.