 By 1285 the Hundred of North Petherton is known to have included the villages and hamlets of North Petherton, West Newton, Bawdrip, Horsey, Woolmersdon, Durston, Perry, Wembdon, Clayhill, Huntworth, Sandford, East and West Stretcholt, Shearston, Pawlett, Pignes, Crandon, Chilton, Dunwear and Sydenham – all of which had been included at the time of the Domesday Book – together with Chedzoy, Tuckerton and Thurloxton which had not received separate mentions in Domesday; by 1303 Ford, Wood and Kidsbury were also named separately within the hundred.The status of various places also changed over the intervening years.Although Lyng and Bridgwater had been included in the hundred at the time of Domesday, by 1275 Lyng held the status of a free manor and Bridgwater borough was described as a separate hundred; however by 1316 they had both returned to the jurisdiction of the Hundred of North Petherton.