 The 1851 Parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales stated that the hundred had 1,047 houses and a population of 5,800 in 1831.By 1887 the Gazetteer of the British Isles showed that the population had increased to 7,476.At least in later centuries, and possibly earlier than 1086, civil parish boundaries were not necessarily constrained by the boundaries of the hundred, and could extend into more than one hundred.