. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. THE HUNDRED OF AMOUNDERNESS CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF PRESTON KIRKHAM LYTHAM POULTON-LE-FYLDE BISPHAM ST. MICHAEL-ON-WYRE GARSTANG AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED. The whole of the above parishes are contained within the hundred or wapentake of Amounderness,1 which includes in addition the townships of Alston with Hothersall in Rib- chester, Forton and Cleveley in Cockerham, and Fulwood, Myer- scough, Bleasdale, Preesall and Stalmine in A very large part of the area is the level district on the western side known as The Fyl
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. THE HUNDRED OF AMOUNDERNESS CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF PRESTON KIRKHAM LYTHAM POULTON-LE-FYLDE BISPHAM ST. MICHAEL-ON-WYRE GARSTANG AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED. The whole of the above parishes are contained within the hundred or wapentake of Amounderness,1 which includes in addition the townships of Alston with Hothersall in Rib- chester, Forton and Cleveley in Cockerham, and Fulwood, Myer- scough, Bleasdale, Preesall and Stalmine in A very large part of the area is the level district on the western side known as The Fylde, once ' the Wheat- field of Amounderness '3; the eastern part is more hilly and Fairsnape Fell in Bleasdale attains a height of 1,674 ft. above the sea. The Ribble forms the southern boundary; the next important stream is the Wyre, which is joined by the Brock, watering the centre of the hun- dred, and flowing west and then north to enter the sea by the Wyre estuary. Leland writing about 1535 says that the hundred had formerly been full of wood, the moors being ' replenished with high fir trees,' but he found the seaward portion ' sore destitute of wood.'4. 1 The hundred was denned probably soon after the Conquest. The name has many spellings: Agemundrenesse, Dom. Bk. ; Almunderness, 1177 ; Agmundernes, 1212 ; Augmonderness, 1226 ; Aumundernesse, 1242 ; Amunderness, 1244 ; Aumonderness, Aumunderneys, 1297 ; Andreness, 1535. A pleading in 1300 turned upon the spelling of the word. The plaintiff claimed an acre in Preston in ' Aundernesse' ; the defendants replied that Preston was within a certain liberty called Aumundernesse and not Aundernesse ; De Banco R. 134, m. 69. Camden gives Anderness as the local pronunciation in his time. Leland spells it Aundernesse. Agamund was a monk of Croyland, and Hagemund occurs locally as a personal name ; Lanes. I no. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, passim. 2 For convenience the accounts of Fulwood, Myerscough and Bleasdale hav
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