 By 1868 the town of Bridgwater and the parishes of Bawdrip, Chedzoy, Chilton Trinity, Durston, St. Michael Church, Pawlett, North Petherton, Thurloxton, and part of Wembdon were within the Hundred of North Petherton, which (excluding Bridgwater) covered an area of 23,150 acres (94 square kilometres).Part of the Parish of North Petherton, a separate tithing known in 1841 as "Petherton limit" which may have dated from the 1670s, lay within the Hundred of Andersfield.The Hundreds of Cannington and Taunton Dean lay to the West, Andersfield to south and west, with Huntspill and Puriton to the north east and Whitley Hundred and North Curry Hundred to the east, separated by the River Parrett.