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Historical Geography information for Kempston and places above it in the hierarchy

Kempston

Kempston is in Launditch Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Launditch Hundred
Description of Launditch Hundred: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

Norfolk

Hundreds, and their Parishes

Norfolk Historical Geography

Hundreds: Parish Maps

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Individual Hundreds
Blofield Brothercross Clackclose Clavering Depwade Diss Earsham Erpingham North Erpingham South Eynsford East Flegg and West Flegg	Forehoe Freebridge Lynn Freebridge Marshland Gallow Greenhoe North Greenhoe South Grimshoe Guiltcross Happing Henstead Holt	Humbleyard Launditch Loddon Mitford Shropham Smithdon Taverham Tunstead Walsham Wayland
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These parish maps are included for completeness, but they are not hundreds. Borough of King's Lynn County of the City of Norwich Borough of Thetford Borough of Great Yarmouth

White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

SOUTH GREENHOE HUNDRED

Is of an irregular figure, averaging about twelve miles in length, and nine in breadth; bounded on the north by Freebridge-Lynn and Launditch; on the east by Mitford and Wayland; on the south by Grimshoe; and on the west by Clackclose. It has near its centre the neat market-town of Swaffham, on a fertile eminence, encompassed by an extensive belt of heath; indeed, the whole Hundred abounds in sheep-walks, and has generally a light sandy soul[sic], except on its eastern side, where it has a rich loam, and its highly cultivated fields are watered by a fine rivulet flowing southward to the Wissey, or Stoke river, which skirts it on the south, as the navigable Nar does on the north-west. It has its name from the green hills, or tumuli, on the heath between Cockley-Cley and North Pickenham, where the Hundred Court was held until the early part of the last century.

Its Petty Sessions are held every Saturday, at the Shirehall, in Swaffham; and Mr. Robert Sewell is clerk to the magistrates.

It forms, with Grimshoe Hundred, the Deanery of Cranwich, and contains 24 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate, in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Bodney	98	1232	2538
Bradenham (East)	368	2870	2388
Bradenham West	364	2682	1703
Caldecote	48	252	662
Cockley-Cley	244	1140	4160
Cressingham (Gt)	476	2272	2391
Cressingham (Ltl)	244	1766	1504
Didlington	77	612	1322
Foulden	500	2818	3354
Gooderstone	500	2490	2743
Hilborough	337	1664	2807
Holm-Hale	488	3876	2547
Houghton-on-the-Hill	41	800	600
Langford	57	472	1248
Narborough	360	3664	3512
Narford	113	1350	1872
Necton	991	5430	3316
Newton	93	1290	1005
Oxborough	316	2150	2317
Pickenham North	269	1730	1516
Pickenham South	170	1546	1751
Southacre	100	2130	2312
Sporle-with- } Palgrave }	773	5364	4153
Swaffham *	3358	12,704	6200

Total +	10,385	62,304	57,921

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+ Its population, in 1831, was 10,237 souls. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £55,144, in 1815, and £69,330 in 1842. Its Agricultural Association is notced[sic] with Swaffham.

* Swaffham return included 89 persons in the Union Workhouse, and 60 in the House of Correction. SHINGHAM parish is partly in this, but mostly in Clackclose Hundred. (See page 622. [this is in Clackclose Hundred description])

SWAFFHAM UNION comprises all the 24 parishes of South Greenhoe Hundred; the parishes of Beechamwell and Shingham, in Clackclose Hundred; those of Ashill, Saham-Toney, and Threxton, in Wayland Hundred; and those of Buckenham Tofts, Ickburgh, Colveston, and Stanford, in Grimshoe Hundred.

The 33 parishes of this Union comprise an area of 26 square miles, and in 1841 had a population of 13,084 souls, of whom 6459 were males, and 6625 females. Their average annual expenditure on the poor, during the three years ending March 1835, was £12,089; for the succeeding three years, £8724; and for the three years ending March, 1841, £8089. Their expenditure for the quarter ending June, 1844, was £2008.

The Union Workhouse, at Swaffham, was built in 1836, at the cost of £5425, and has room for 400 paupers; but the average daily number of inmates, in summer, is only about 100. They are clothed and fed at the average weekly cost of 2s. 10d. per week per head. Robert Sewell, Esq., is Union Clerk and Superintendent Registrar; Mr. James Philo is Registrar of Marriages; Messrs. Geo. Whittby and Wm. Holt are Registrars of Births and Deaths; and Mr. Reuben Harwood is governer of the Workhouse.

South Greenhoe Hundred is mostly in Castle-Acre Police Division, and partly in those of Stoke-Ferry, Dereham, and Hockham.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 371 to 372) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Bradenham (East)/East Bradenham, Bradenham West/West Bradenham, Cressingham (Gt)/Great Cressingham, Cressingham (Ltl)/Little Cressingham, Holm-Hale/Holme Hale, Newton/Newton by Castle Acre, Pickenham North/North Pickenham, Pickenham South/South Pickenham, Southacre/Acre South

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White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

GUILTCROSS HUNDRED

Is of an irregular triangular figure, adjoining to Suffolk, extending about 14 miles from east to west, and varying from 2 to 6 miles in breadth, being bounded on the south and west by the Little Ouse river, on the north by the river Thet and Shropham Hundred, and on the east by Diss Hundred. The western part of it, near Thetford, has a light sandy soil, resting on a substratum of chalk; but the other parts rise in gentle swells, and have a strong soil of clay and loam. Many extensive enclosures have been made here since 1789; and in the springs of the low swampy grounds, at its south east angle, near Lopham, the rivers Waveney and Little Ouse have their sources. The crown was seized of this Hundred in the time of the Conqueror, who gave it to Wm. de Albini; but it is now comprehended in the Duke of Norfolk's Liberty, his Grace being lord paramount of the whole, though much of the soil, and many of the manors, are held by various families.

It forms, with Shropham Hundred, the Deanery of Rockland, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and comprises twelve parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, their annual value, as assessed to the County Rate, in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Banham	1165	6772	3714
Blo'-Norton	435	1884	1081
Garboldisham	777	4066	1958
Gasthorpe	111	538	825
Harling (East)	1062	3668	2458
Harling (West)	117	1108	3166
Kenninghall @	1389	6236	3524
Lopham (North)	815	3236	1966
Lopham (South)	724	2862	1651
Quiddenham *	83	1092	1038
Riddlesworth *	70	574	1137
Rushford (part of) +	138	700	2264
Snarehill ext. par. !	28	620	2046

TOTAL	6914	33,356	26,828

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* Forty inhabitants were absent from Quiddenham and Riddlesworth, when the census was taken.

+ Rushford includes Shadwell hamlet, and also Rusford[sic] Lodge Estate, which lies on the Suffolk side of the river. The whole parish contains 172 souls, and more than 3000 acres.

! Snarehill is extra-parochial, except Great Snarehill , sometimes called Thetford Lodge, which has 1666 acres, and is partly a warren. It is now rated to the poor as part of Rushford parish.

@ Kenninghall return includes 112 persons in the Union Workhouse.

This Hundred had only 6761 souls, in 1841. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £34,659, in 1815, and £37,436 in 1842. Banham, Kenninghall, and N. and S. Lopham are in Long Stratton Police Division; and all the other parishes are in Hockham Police Division. For PETTY SESSIONS, see page 410 [this is in Shropham Hundred description].

GUILTCROSS UNION comprises all the 12 parishes of this Hundred, except Rusford-with-Snarehill, which is in Thetford Union, (see page 401. [this is in Thetford description]) It also comprises Bridgham, Old and New Buckenham, Eccles, and Wilby, in Shropham Hundred; and Bressingham, Fersfield, Roydon, Shelfanger, and Winfarthing, in Diss Hundred. Its 21 parishes comprise an area of 72 square miles, and had 11,965 inhabitants, in 1841, of whom 5942 were males, and 6023 females.

The average annual expenditure of the 21 parishes, before the formation of the Union, was £10,833; but it is now only £5436. The Union Workhouse is at Kenninghall, and was built in 1836, at the cost of £4727, including the purchase of the land, furniture, &c. It is a commodious brick building, and has room for 350 inmates, but has seldom more than half that number in summer, and had only 190 in Dec. 1844.

Mr. Samuel Caley, of Attleborough, is Union Clerk; Mr. Thos. Turner, of Kenninghall, is Superintendent Registrar; and Mr. Thos. Rackhem is Registrar of Marriages and master of the Workhouse. The District Registrars of Births and Deaths are Mr. E. N. Clowes, of New Buckenham, and Mr. Geo. Kent, of Kenninghall. The latter is also Relieving Officer.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 420 to 421) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Harling (East)/East Harling, Harling (West)/West Harling, Lopham (North)/North Lopham, Lopham (South)/South Lopham, Quiddenham/Quidenham
The hundred name is also seen spelt as "Gylecross" in some documents.

For more information see :-

General description and layout of Hundreds.
Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.
Snarehill (Snareshill) though united with Rushford, is an extra-parochial estate anciently in two hamlets, called Great Snarehill and Little Snarehill.

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Norfolk Hundreds

White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

HENSTEAD HUNDRED

Is skirted on the north by the river Yare, and on the west by the river Tas. It is about nine miles in length, and varies from six to three miles in breadth; being bounded, on the north, by Blofield; on the east by Loddon and part of Clavering; on the south, by Depwade; and on the west, by Humbleyard Hundred, and the county of the city of Norwich.

Near the centre of it was formerly an extensive heath; but it was enclosed under an act passed in 1800, and the whole Hundred is now in a high state of cultivation. It was possessed by the Crown, until granted out to the Priory of Norwich, and the families of Clavering, Cornwallis, &c.

Its Petty Sessions are held at the Rummer Inn, Stoke Holy Cross, every alternate Friday; and Mr. Thos. Waters, of Norwich, is clerk to the magistrates, and also to the commissioners of taxes for this Hundred.

The following enumeration of its 20 parishes, shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the county rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Arminghall	79	1148	609
* Bixley	110	1516	639
* Bramerton	229	1422	621
* Caistor St.Edm.	147	1646	1020
* Framingham Earl	100	838	611
* Framingham Pigot	289	1524	565
* Holverstone	37	526	331
Kirby-Bedon	265	2588	1329
* Poringland Gt + * Poringland Ltl +	520 } 57 }	2000	1452
Rockland St. My.	473	2228	1210
Saxlingham Ngt.	650	3296	1530
Saxlingham Thrp.	131	1114	456
Shottesham All Sts	557	2538	1523
Shottesham St. } Mary & St. Martin }	408	3312	1615
Stoke Holy Cross	453	2974	1603
Surlingham	446	2816	1767
Trowse Newton	562	2510	1121
Whitlingham	28	666	555
* Yelverton	82	952	529

Total @	5623	36,484	19,086

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+ Great and Little Poringland are united for the support of the poor.

* Those parishes marked thus * are in the Liberty of the Duke of Norfolk. (see page 25. [in description of Norfolk])

@ Henstead Hundred had 5213 souls, in 1831. Its annual value as assessed to the Property Tax, was £25,542, in 1815, and £40,559, in 1842. It is in Catton Police Division, except the parishes of Saxlingham Nethergate and Thorpe, which are in Long Stratton Division; and Holverstone, Rockland All Saints, the two Shotteshams, & Yelverton, which are in Loddon Police Division.

HENSTEAD UNION comprises all the parishes of Henstead Hundred, except Yelverton, which is in Loddon and Clavering Union. It also comprises the 18 parishes of Humbleyard Hundred, and is already noticed at p. 692 [this is Humbleyard Hundred description].

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 787 to 788) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Caistor St.Edm./Caistor St.Edmund, Holverstone/Holverston, Poringland Gt/Great Poringland or East Poringland, Poringland Ltl/Little Poringland or West Poringland, Rockland St. My/Rockland St. Mary, Saxlingham Ngt./Saxlingham Nethergate, Saxlingham Thrp./Saxlingham Thorpe, Shottesham All Sts/Shotesham All Saints, Shottesham St. Mary & St. Martin/Shotesham St Mary

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White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

HUMBLEYARD HUNDRED

Is a fertile and well-wooded district, about 8 miles in length, and 6 in breadth, bounded on the north by the County of the City of Norwich, and Forehoe Hundred; on the west, by the latter; on the south, by Depwade; and on the east, by Henstead Hundred.

It is crossed by the Norwich and Brandon Railway, and by four excellent turnpike roads, and forms the Deanery of Humbleyard, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk.

Its Petty Sessions are held on the first and third Wednesdays of every month: on the former day, at the Queen's Head, Hethersett; and on the latter day, at the World's End, Mulbarton. Mr. George Elward (sic) Simpson, of Norwich, is clerk to the magistrates.

The following enumeration of the 19 parishes of Humbleyard shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and the territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Bracon-Ash	293	1696	943
Carlton (East)	310	1894	1116
Colney	110	1340	917
Cringleford	191	1842	981
Dunston	107	868	553
Flordon +	193	1280	831
Hethel +	211	2160	1416
Hethersett	1138	5836	2635
Intwood	49	700	534
Keswick	117	1218	640
Ketteringham	246	2076	1585
Merkshall, or } Mattishall- } Heath }	24	678	528
Melton Great	429	3554	2455
Melton Little	330	1400	661
Mulbarton	582	3148	1265
Newton-Flotman	371	1864	1172
Swainsthorpe *	293	1428	785
Swardeston	359	1898	836
Wreningham	487	2508	1502

Total @	5840	37,388	21,355

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* Swainsthorpe return included 93 in the Henstead Union Workhouse.

+ Flordon, Hethel, and Newton-Flotman, are in Long Stratton Police Division; and all other parishes are in Catton Police Division.

@ The population of the Hundred, in 1831, was 5411. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £27,280, in 1815, and £41,774 in 1842.

HENSTEAD UNION consists of 37 parishes, embracing the whole of Humbleyard and Henstead Hundreds, except Yelverton. It extends over an area of 65 square miles, and had 11,381 inhabitants in 1841, of whom 5674 were males, and 5707 females. The average annual expenditure of the 37 parishes, from 1832 to 1835, was £10,231. In 1838, it was £8880; and in 1839, £6931. Their expenditure, solely on the in and out door poor, was £5118, in 1840, and £4784 in 1842.

The UNION WORKHOUSE, at Swainsthorpe, was built in 1835, at the cost of £6200, and has room for 370 paupers, but had only 162 inmates in Dec. 1844. Mr. Thos. Waters, of Norwich, is Union Clerk; and Mr. Thomas Faulkner is Supt. Registrar and Master of the Workhouse. The relieving officers are, Mr. W. Whiting, for Henstead, and Mr. Ezra Parr, for Humbleyard. The district registrars are, Mr. W. Whiting, for Henstead, and Mr. Mark Bean Petchell, of Mulbarton, for Humbleyard. The Rev. E. S. Dixon, is the chaplain; and the surgeons are, Messrs. Merry, Dixon, Gowing, and Tunaley.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of page 692) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Carlton (East)/East Carlton, Merkshall/Markshall or Mattishall Heath, Melton Great/Great Melton, Melton Little/Little Melton
The hundred name is also seen spelt as "Humilyard" in some documents.

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White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

LODDON HUNDRED

Extends about ten miles south from the river Yare, and is from 5 to 6 miles in breadth,- being bounded on the north by Blofield, on the east by Clavering, on the south by Earsham and a small part of the river Waveney, near Bungay; and on the west by Depwade and Henstead Hundreds.

It has generally a fertile soil, is well cultivated, and abounds with wood and water. Near the river Yare, it has a rich but watery tract of marshes, with several rivulets and "broads".

It is in the Deanery of Brooke, and Archdeaconry of Norfolk. It has its name from the market town of Loddon, where Petty Sessions are held every alternate Wednesday. Mr. Jas. Copeman is clerk to the magistrates.

It comprises 21 PARISHES, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rates, in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres:-

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Alpington	197	1,054	520
Ashby	263	1,064	436
Bedingham	316	1,868	1,148
Broome	610	2,526	1,421
Carleton St. Peter	96	1,000	765
Chedgrave	348	2,318	1,395
Claxton	200	1,134	977
Ditchingham	1,124	4,586	2,055
Hardley	214	2,132	1,428
Hedenham	272	2,530	1,564
Hillington (Hellington)	64	888	516
Kirstead	249	1,548	1,009
Langley	323	3,244	2,668
Loddon	1,197	5,724	2,988
Mundham	308	2,316	1,527
Seething	449	2,620	1,571
Sisland	64	726	459
Thurton	246	1,346	748
Thwaite St. Mary	110	970	667
Topcroft	475	3,230	1,861
Woodton	567	3,516	2,112

TOTAL *	7,692	46,340	27,838

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* The whole of the Hundred is in LODDON and CLAVERING UNION, which was incorporated under an act passed in 1765, but is now under the new poor law, as described at a subsequent page. (See Clavering.)

The population of the Hundred, in 1831, was 7,457. The annual value of its lands and buildings, as assessed to the Property Tax, was £41,301, in 1815; and £51,704, in 1842. It is in Loddon Police Division.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages to ) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Ashby/Ashby St Mary

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White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

SHROPHAM HUNDRED

Is of an irregular oblong figure, about 14 miles in length, from east to west, and from 6 to 8 in breadth, being bounded on the west by Grimshoe, on the north by Wayland and Forehoe, on the east by Depwade, and on the south by Guiltcross Hundred.

The soil is various, but much of it is a light sand, watered by a number of small rivulets, which unite their streams on its southern boundary, near Quiddenham, in the Thet rivulet, which flows westward to the Little Ouse, at Thetford. The latter borough is at the south-west angle of Shropham Hundred, which is traversed throughout its whole length by the Norwich and Thetford turnpike, and the Norwich and Brandon Railway, which has a station at the improving town of Attleborough.

This Hundred forms, with that of Guiltcross, the Deanery of Rockland, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.

Petty Sessions are held on the first Thursday of every month, one year at East Harling and the next year at Larlingford. Wm. Clarke, Esq., of Thetford, is clerk to the magistrates.

Shropham, written in Domesday-book Serepham, was in the fee of the castle-manor of Buckenham, from the Confessor's time till the reign of Henry VI.

It contains 21 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Attleborough *	1959	9604	5247
Besthorpe *	536	3374	2127
Brettenham	62	842	1888
Bridgham	328	1790	2639
Buckenham (New)	716	1262	315
Buckenham (Old)	1255	8106	4812
Eccles	124	1440	1630
Ellingham (Grt*)	838	4492	2530
Hargham *	93	904	1136
Hockham *	644	2892	3196
Illington *	93	664	1100
Kilverstone	47	802	1869
Larling *	205	1252	1506
Roudham *	85	760	2025
Rockland All Sts *	352	864	916
Rockland Saint Andrew *	124	1796	669
Shropham *	513	2786	2596
Snetterton *	261	1867	1668
Wilby	124	1392	1382
Wretham (East)	194	1234	2572
Wretham (West)	103	1124	3121

Total +	8656	49,256	44,944

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* UNIONS.- The 12 parishes marked thus * are in WAYLAND UNION, which has its Workhouse at Rockland All Saints, as noticed at page 362 [description of Wayland Hundred]. When the census was taken in 1841, there were 36 persons in the Workhouse. Old and New Buckenham, Bridgham, Eccles, and Wilby, are in Guiltcross Union; and Brettenham, Kilverstone, and East and West Wretham, are in Thetford Union. (See page 401. [this is in Thetford Borough section])

+ The population of this Hundred, in 1831, was 8566. Its annual value, as assessed to the PROPERTY TAX, was £56,335, in 1815, and £55,168 in 1842. It is all in Hockham Police Division, except Old and New Buckenham, which are in that of Long Stratton.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 410 to 411) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Buckenham (New)/New Buckenham, Buckenham (Old)/Old Buckenham, Ellingham (Grt*)/Great Ellingham, Rockland All Sts/Rockland All Saints, Wretham (East)/East Wretham, Wretham (West)/West Wretham

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TAVERHAM HUNDRED

Is of an irregular oval figure, stretching seven miles northward from Norwich, and about twelve miles in length, from east to west; being bounded on the south by the river Wensum and the city liberties; on the east, by Blofield and Walsham Hundreds; on the north, by the river Bure and South Erpingham Hundred; and on the west, by Eynesford Hundred.

It gives name to the Deanery of Taverham, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich. A great portion of it has a light, loamy soil, resting on beds of marl and chalk, and having an undulated surface, highly cultivated, and studded with many handsome mansions; but to the north of St. Faith's and Horsford, is a large steril tract of flat sandy heath, enclosed by an act of Parliament, passed in 1790, and now having many rising and thriving plantations.

The following enumeration of the 18 parishes of this Hundred shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate, in 1843, and their territorial extent.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Attlebridge	94	1000	1206
Beeston St. And.	46	1018	609
* Catton	650	2880	904
* Crostwick	147	944	636
* Drayton	372	1524	1284
* Felthorpe	574	1308	2201
Frettenham	285	2086	1512
* Hainford	570	2544	1755
+ Hellesdon (part)	76	1302	1163
* Horsham and } Newton Saint } Faith @ }	973 } 334 }	4452	2306
* Horsford	593	3384	3770
* Horstead-with } Staninghall }	625	3300	2586
* Rackheath	276	2614	1980
* Salhouse	642	2520	1456
* Spixworth	52	1792	1209
* Sprowston	1235	4700	2569
* Taverham	211	1780	2021
Wroxham	363	1936	1433

Total !	8118	41,084	30,600

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+ Hellesdon parish is partly a hamlet, in the County of the City of Norwich (See page 52.[see History of Norwich section])

! Horsham includes 137 persons in St. Faith's Union Workhouse.

@ Taverham Hundred had 7695 souls, in 1831. Its annual value, as assessed to property tax, was £27,422, in 1815, and £45,772, in 1842. It is in Catton Police Division. TAVERHAM HUNDRED AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION holds its meetings at Rackheath; and J. Longe, Esq., is its honorary secretary.

* ST. FAITH'S UNION has for its Workhouse the old House of Industry at Horsham St. Faith, which was built in 1805, for Coltishall; and the thirteen parishes marked * in the foregoing table, which were incorporated in that year for the support of their poor. This house has 10 acres of land attached to it, and has been altered since 1836, at the cost of about £1000. It has room for 330 inmates, but has seldom so many as 200.

The Union comprises 30 parishes, embracing the 18 parishes of Taverham Hundred; St. Mary's-in-the-Marsh, in Norwich (see p. 52[this is in the History of Norwich section];) Honingham, in Forehoe Hundred; Booton, in South Erpingham Hundred; and nine parishes in Eynesford Hundred. (See page 344. [this is in Eynesford Hundred description])

It comprises an area of 75 square miles, and in 1841 had 11,556 inhabitants, of whom 5610 were males, and 5946 females. The average annual expenditure of its 30 parishes, from 1832 to 1835; was £10,525; but in 1838, it was only £5837; and in 1839, £6227. Their total expenditure, solely on in and out-door poor, was £6054, in 1842; and £1997 in the quarter ending Dec. 1844.

Fras. John Blake, Esq., of Norwich, is Union Clerk and Supt Registrar; W. C. Hotson, Esq., auditor; Rev. A. S. Warner, chaplain; Messrs. Wm. Durrant and Rt. Richards, relieving officers; and Mr. T. C. Swann and wife, master and matron of the Workhouse. John Longe, Esq., is Chairman of the Board of Guardians. The Union is divided into two districts, and employs five surgeons.

Petty Sessions are held at the Shire Hall, Norwich, every Saturday; and Roger Kerrison, Esq., is clerk to the magistrates.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 777 to 778) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Beeston St. And./Beeston St. Andrew, Catton/Old Catton, Horsham and Newton Saint Faith/Horsham St Faith (Newton St Faith)

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WAYLAND HUNDRED.

This Hundred has in its centre the small market town of Watton, and was anciently called Wanelunt, or Waneland, from the oozy nature of its soil, which is now well drained and cultivated, most of the waste and commons being enclosed about the beginning of the present century. It is about eight miles in length and breadth, except on its eastern side, near Hingham, where it is only four miles in width. It is bounded on the south by Shropham, on the west by Grimshoe and South Greenhoe, on the north by the latter, and on the east by Mitford and Forehoe Hundreds.

It forms the Deanery of Breckles, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich; and in the reign of Edward I., it had a bailiff and two coroners. Petty Sessions are held every alternate Wednesday at Watton, one year at the George Inn, and the next year at the Crown Inn. Mr. W. P. Pillans, of Swaffham, is clerk to the magistrates.

There are in this Hundred sixteen parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Ashill *	637	4526	2970
Breckles	160	1124	1506
Carbrooke	807	4604	3026
Caston	513	2430	1509
Ellingham (Little)	250	2274	1516
Griston	227	1884	1355
Merton	164	1188	1343
Ovington	268	2342	1392
Rockland St. Peter	392	1658	999
Saham-Toney *	1217	5590	3637
Scoulton	360	3746	2193
Stow-Bedon	300	1634	1637
Thompson	490	2292	2218
Threxton *	19	828	922
Tottington	340	1874	3090
Watton	1188	5412	1763

Total @	7332	43,400	31,076

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@ The population of this Hundred, in 1831, was 6824. Its annual value, as assessed to the PROPERTY TAX, was £48,709, in 1815, and £47,406 in 1842. It is in Hockham Police Division.

* UNIONS.- Ashill, Saham-Toney, and Threxton, are in Swaffham Union, and the other thirteen parishes are in WAYLAND UNION, which comprises also twelve parishes in Shropham Hundred, which see. The 25 parishes of Wayland Union comprise an area of about 60,000 acres, and had 11,168 inhabitants, in 1841, of whom 5510 were males, and 5658 females.

Their average annual expenditure, from 1832 to 1835, was £9450: and for the three years ending March, 1839, £4426. Their expenditure for the quarter ending June, 1844, was £1747. The Union Workhouse is at Rockland All Saints, and was built in 1836, at the cost of about £4000. It has room for 300 inmates, but in summer has seldom half that number. Mr. Samuel Caley, of Attleborough, is Union Clerk and Superintendent Registrar; Mr. Ezekiel Page is master of the Workhouse; and the District Registrars are Mr. Henry Stebbings, of Carbrooke, and Mr. George Myhill, of Attleborough.

WAYLAND ASSOCIATION for the promotion of Agriculture, and the encouragement of Industry and Good Conduct in Servants and Labourers, holds its meetings at Watton. The Hon. Fras. Baring is president, and Mr. William Massey, secretary.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 361 to 362) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Ellingham (Little)/Little Ellingham
The hundred name is also seen spelt as "Weyland" in some documents.

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BLOFIELD HUNDRED

Extends nearly thirteen miles along the northern bank of the river Yare, from Norwich, eastward to Hardley cross, and varies from 2 to 4 miles in breadth, being bounded on the north and east by Walsham Hundred, and on the west by Taverham Hundred. Its southern side, throughout its whole length, is traversed by the Norwich and Yarmouth Railway, running near and parallel with the river Yare. It is a fine agricultural district, having rich loamy uplands, rising boldly from the verdant valley of the Yare.

It anciently comprised Tombland, and all the north end of the city of Norwich; and the hamlet of Thorpe, within the county of the city, still remains a member of the parish of Thorpe St. Andrew, in Blofield, which forms, with Walsham Hundred, the Deanery of Blofield, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich.

In the 38th of Henry III., on an appeal of death in the Court of King's Bench, the defendant put in a plea of jurisdiction, alleging that he was a clerk. The Dean of Blofield appeared in Court, with the letters patent of the Bishop of Norwich, and demanded the said defendant to be given up to the Ecclesiastical Court. This privilege, called the benefit of clergy, like that of sanctuary, became, in course of time, a most intolerable nuisance to society, as it often enabled the crafty and vicious to defeat the ends of justice. Every culprit who could read was allowed this clerical privilege; but in more enlightened times, learning was considered rather as an aggravation than an extenuation of guilt. By virtue of this privilege, the punishment of death was commuted for branding in the hand, and imprisonment.

Blofield contains 19 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Blofield	1112	6268	2277
Bradestone	126	960	513
Brundall	52	772	525
Buckenham Ferry	60	1034	908
Burlingham St. And.	214	2102	859
Burlingham St. Ed.	98	1310	646
Burlingham St. Pet	91	948	399
Cantley	210	2322	1788
Freethorpe	383	1806	846
Hassingham	104	760	562
Limpenhoe	186	1580	1010
Lingwood *	473	1816	643
Plumstead (Grt.)	307	3176	1383
Plumstead (Littl.)	341	2476	1375
Postwick	241	2936	1762
Southwood	52	840	471
Strumpshaw	412	2362	1319
Thorpe-next-Norwich	1041	4490	1804
Witton	162	1196	576

TOTAL +	5665	39,154	19,666

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* Lingwood included 102 persons in Blofield Union Workhouse; and Thorp[sic] 176 in the County Lunatic Asylum.

+ Blofield Hundred is all in the Union to which it gives name, and in Ludham and Loddon Police Divisions. It had 5290 souls, in 1831. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £26,231, in 1815, and [£]43,543 in 1842. The Rev. E. Sidney is honorary secretary of the Blofield & Walsham Farmers' Club.

Petty Sessions, for Blofield and Walsham Hundreds, are held at Blofield every alternate Monday; and Mr. W. H. Codling is clerk to the magistrates.

BLOFIELD UNION comprises the 32 parishes of Blofield and Walsham Hundreds, embracing an area of 73 square miles, or about 44,000 acres, and 10,555 inhabitants, of whom 5255 are males, and 5300 females. The average annual expenditure of the 32 parishes, on their poor, from 1832 to 1835, was £5815, and since then it has been less than £4000. The Union Workhouse is at Lingwood, and was built in 1836, at the cost of £5810. It has room for 250 paupers. Mr. Wm. Henry Codling, of Blofield, is Union Clerk and Supt. Registrar; and Mr. Roger Harrison is master of the Workhouse. The Surgeons and District Registrars are Mr. Peter Eade, of Blofield, and Mr. Wm. Hy. Cufaude, of Acle.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 501 to 502) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Bradestone/Braydeston, Burlingham St. And./Burlingham St. Andrew, Burlingham St. Ed./Burlingham St. Edmund, Burlingham St. Pet./Burlingham St. Peter, Plumstead (Grt.)/Great Plumstead, Plumstead (Littl.)/Little Plumstead, Thorpe-next-Norwich/Thorpe St Andrew

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CLACKCLOSE HUNDRED

The largest division of Norfolk, lies at the south-west extremity of the county, and was formerly called a Hundred and a Half. It is about 17 miles in length, from north to south, and varies from 10 to 15 miles in breadth, being bounded on the north by Freebridge-Lynn, on the east by South Greenhoe and Grimshoe, on the south by Cambridgeshire, and on the west by the latter and Freebridge-Marshland.

It is watered by several navigable streams; the great Ouse bounding and intersecting it from south to north; the Wissey crossing it from east to west; the Nar bounding it on the north; and the Welney or Croft river separating it from the Isle of Ely.

It abounds in woods, seats, and large villages, and the upland parts are bold, fertile, and picturesque; but a large portion of it is in low and monotonous fens and marshes, now well drained and cultivated, and forming part of the great BEDFORD LEVEL, which extends into the counties of Northampton, Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Bedford, nearly to the source of the Great Ouse, and was so called in honour of the fourth Earl of Bedford, who was the principal undertaker in the stupendous work of draining this immense tract of inundated fens; for the performance of which, 95,000 acres were allotted to him and the few others who were induced, by his spirited example, to join in the costly and hazardous enterprise. The work was commenced in 1630; and in 1637, the Earl had expended on it no less than £100,000. He died in 1641, before the work was completed; but it was resumed by his son, in 1649, and finished in 1653.

The great outfall of the drain-water is by two deep and navigable drains, called the Old and New Bedford rivers, both terminating in the Ouse, near Denver sluice. -- The new river is 100 feet broad, and the tide flows up as far as St. Ives. This great drainage, and that of the adjacent Marshland, have since undergone many considerable improvements, one of which is that new channel of the Ouse, called the Eau-Brink Cut. (See pages 516 [History of King's Lynn section] and 563. [description of Freebridge Marshland Hundred]) Another cut, (12 miles long,) is now forming, for the better drainage of the Middle Level of the Fens, as noticed at page 518 [History of King's Lynn section].

In the reign of Edward I., the abbot of Ely had a baronial jurisdiction in Clackclose, with the taking out and return of all writs, &c.; view of frankpledge; forfeitures of felons' goods; and a prison and gallows at Wimbotsham. The Hundred court was held on Clackclose hill, near Stradsett, in the time of Henry III. Two coroners are appointed, one for the Hundred of Clackclose and the Liberties of Sir. Thos. Hare, Bart., and the other for the "Half Hundred," which comprises only the Norfolk parts of the parishes of Upwell, Outwell, and Welney which are partly in Cambridgeshire, and being separated from the Hundred were granted by Edward VI. to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who conveyed them to Edmund Beaupre, Esq., of Outwell, from whom they passed, by female issue, to the families of Bell and Townley. -- (vide Beaupre Hall, in Outwell.) They are held of the Crown in soccage, as part of the manor of East Greenwich. The other manors belong to various lords; and the whole of Clackclose is now one Hundred, as determined by Judge Atkins, in the 9th of William and Mary, and forms the Deanery of Fincham, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich.

Petty Sessions are held every Monday at Downham; and Mr. F. B. Bell is clerk to the magistrates.

The following is an enumeration of the 33 parishes in this Hundred, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres:-

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Barton-Bendish @	455	3,632	3,989
Beechamwell	246	1,492	4,098
Bexwell	70	1,546	1,104
Boughton	209	1,788	1,229
Crimplesham	358	3,064	1,573
Denver	910	6,230	2,976
Dereham (West)	544	4,230	3,240
Downham Market +	2,953	9,440	2,286
Fincham	807	5,052	2,911
Fordham	219	1,976	2,162
Hilgay	1,515	9,626	7,583
Holme-next-Runcton	288	1,400	1,011
Marham	817	4,526	3,670
Outwell (part of) *	820	4,952	2,124
Roxham	45	570	566
Runcton (South)	144	1,084	753
Ryston	40	866	566
Shingham !	59	268	824
Shouldham	683	3,762	3,581
Shouldham-Thorpe	314	1,808	1,289
Southery	1,023	5,280	4,281
Stoke Ferry	663	3,576	1,881
Stow Bardolph	1,076	6,696	5,695
Stradsett	194	2,042	1,236
Tottenhill	426	2,334	1,463
Upwell (part of) *	2,404	16,000	8,398
Wallington-cum- } Thorpland }	77	1,880	1,256
Watlington	502	3,422	1,633
Welney (part of) *	591	5,948	3,188
Wereham	625	4,382	2,145
Wimbotsham	582	3,118	1,771
Wormegay	330	3,088	2,749
Wretton	533	2,106	1,102

TOTAL	20,522	127,184	84,333

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@ Eastmore hamlet, which has 106 souls, is included with Barton-Bendish.

* Upwell, Outwell, and Welney parishes, are partly in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire; but the Norfolk parts of each, support their poor as separate townships. The churches of the two former are in Norfolk, and the latter in Cambridge. The return of the Norfolk portions included 80 strangers, employed during harvest.

+ The return of Downham Market included 114 persons in the Union Workhouse; that of Stow Bardolph, 30 persons attending the fair at Stow Bridge; and that of Wimbotsham, 40 persons attending the Annual Feast.

! Shingham is partly in South Greenhoe Hundred.

Clackclose is in Stoke Ferry, Wiggenhall, and Castle-Acre Police Divisions. The total population of the Hundred in 1831, was 17,663. Its Annual Value, as assessed to the Property Tax, was £92,049, in 1815: and £142,703, in 1842. The number of males in 1841, was 10,430; and females, 10,092.

DOWNHAM UNION:- Beechamwell and Shingham are in Swaffham Union; Outwell and Upwell are in Wisbech Union; and all the other 29 parishes of Clackclose Hundred are in DOWNHAM UNION, which comprises also the four parishes of Wiggenhall, in Freebridge-Marshland, and that part of Welney lying in Cambridgeshire. The 34 parishes of this Union, comprise an area of 133 square miles, and had 19,200 inhabitants in 1841; but only 16,016, in 1831.

Their average annual expenditure, during the three years preceding the formation of the Union, was £10,083. Their expenditure in 1838, was £6,994; in 1839, £9,312 17s.; and in 1843, £5,306. The latter sum is exclusive of salaries, &c., being the amount expended solely on in and out-door paupers.

The UNION WORKHOUSE is at Downham, and was built in 1836, at the cost of about £5,000. It is a neat and commodious building, and has room for 250 inmates. C. B. Plestowe, Esq., is chairman of the Board of Guardians; Mr. Edward Hett, is union clerk, and superintendent registrar; and Mr. Thos. N. Rose, is master of the Workhouse.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 607 to 609) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Dereham (West)/West Dereham,
Holme-next-Runcton/Runcton Holme,
Runcton (South)/South Runcton

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DEPWADE HUNDRED

Is about ten miles in length, from east to west, and six in breadth, extending from 9 to 15 miles S. by W. of Norwich. It is a fertile and well-wooded district, intersected by good roads and several small rivulets, which give rise to the river Tas, or Taiis[sic], which was formerly a much larger stream, crossed near Tasburgh by a deep ford, from which the Hundred had its name.

It is bounded on the north by Forehoe, Humbleyard, and Henstead; on the east by Loddon; on the south, by Diss and Earsham Hundreds; and on the west by Shropham Hundred.

It forms the Deanery of Depwade, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk; and the fee of it was in the crown till the reign of Richard I. In 1327, Edward III. granted it to John de Clavering, but it is now divided among various proprietors. Its Petty Sessions are held at Long Stratton, every Tuesday; and Mr. J. Hotson is clerk to the magistrates.

The following enumeration of its 21 parishes shews their population in 1841; the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate, in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Ashwellthorpe	469	1842	806
Aslacton	404	1994	1163
Bunwell	1001	3778	2423
Carlton-Rode	938	4960	2573
Forncett St. Mary	305	1556	731
Forncett St. Peter	669	3942	1851
Fritton	301	1442	818
Fundenhall	367	2358	1348
Hapton	203	1028	657
Hardwick	269	1294	855
Hempnall	1255	5930	3583
Morningthorpe	192	1746	921
Moulton Great	444	2614	1346
Shelton	215	1824	1176
Stratton St.Mary	690	3108	1268
Stratton St.Michl.	273	2070	1050
Tacolneston	518	2572	1396
Tasburgh	527	1932	874
Tharston	388	2922	1502
Tibbenham	749	5088	3254
Wacton	267	1526	896

Total *	10,444	55,526	30,491

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* Its population, in 1831, was 10,031; and its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £45,832, in 1815; and £61,991, in 1842. It is in Long Stratton Police Division.

DEPWADE UNION comprises all the 21 parishes of Depwade Hundred, 13 parishes in Earsham Hundred, and 9 parishes in Diss Hundred. These 43 parishes comprise an area of 110 square miles, and had 25,590 inhabitants, in 1841, of whom 12,618 were males, and 12,972 females. Their average annual expenditure, from 1832 to 1835, was £24,008; but in 1838, it was only £13,459. Their expenditure, solely on their in and out door poor, in 1842 was £11,669; and for the quarter ending Dec. 1844, £3586. 17s 11¼d. The Union Workhouse is at Pulham St. Mary Magdalen, in Earsham Hundred, and was built in 1836-7, at the cost of £8240. It has room for 400 inmates, and had 130 in July, 1841, but has a much larger number in winter. They are fed and clothed at the weekly cost of 2s. 0½d. per head.

Mr. John Hotson, of Long Stratton, is Union Clerk and Supt. Registrar; and Mr. Thomas Mainey is master of the Workhouse. Messrs. Robt. Holmes, J. Stanton, and Rt. Austin, are the relieving officers; and Messrs. Robt. Holmes, James Aldis, John Stanton, and Thos. Cotman, are the District Registrars. Seven Surgeons are employed by the Union.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 699 to 700) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Moulton Great/Great Moulton or Moulton St Michael, Stratton St. Mary/Long Stratton, Stratton St.Michl./Stratton St Michael (Long Stratton), Tibbenham/Tibenham

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EARSHAM HUNDRED

Is a fertile district, bounded on the west by Diss Hundred, on the north by Depwade and Loddon, and on the east and south by the river Waveney, which divides it from Suffolk, and flows through a verdant and picturesque valley. It is about 13 miles in length, along the river, from the vicinity of Scole Inn to Bungay, on the Suffolk side of the valley, and averages from 3 to 5 miles in breadth.

It forms, with Diss Hundred, the Deanery of Redenhall, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and is all comprised in the paramount jurisdiction of the Liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, which has two coroners, and contains above a hundred other parishes in this county.

Petty Sessions are held at Harleston every alternate Friday. Mr. Wm. Hazard is the magistrates' clerk.

The following enumeration of the parishes, &c. in Earsham Hundred, shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Alburgh	589	2800	1514
Billingford	219	1954	934
Brockdish	466	2272	1054
Denton	625	4036	2434
Earsham	731	4964	2718
Mendham (part*)	257	1314	780
Needham	310	2086	1200
Pulham St. Mary } Magdalen }	1155	4896	2892
Pulham St. My Vir. @	924	5272	2958
Redenhall } Harleston + }	237 1425	6080	2539
Rushall	267	1502	1149
Starston	482	3230	2167
Thorpe Abbots	281	1698	1123
Wortwell +	560	2162	1102

Total	8528	44,266	24,564

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[ @ This is Pulham St. Mary the Virgin.]

* Mendham is mostly in Suffolk.

Harleston is a chapelry, and Wortwell a township, both in Redenhall parish.

The return of Pulham St. Mary Magdalen included 130 persons in the Workhouse of DEPWADE UNION, (see page 699,) [this is in Depwade Hundred description] which comprises all Earsham Hundred, except Mendham, which is in Hoxne Union, Suffolk. Langmere, a hamlnt[sic] of Dickleburgh parish, is locally situated in this Hundred which had 8485 souls in 1831, and is in Long Stratton and Loddon Police Divisions. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £40,320, in 1815, and £49,681 in 1842.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 722 to 723) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
"Pulham St. My Vir"/"Pulham St. Mary the Virgin" or "Pulham Market", Thorpe Abbots/Thorpe Abbotts

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NORTH ERPINGHAM HUNDRED

Is in the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster. It extends about twelve miles from east to west, along the sea-coast, and averages six miles in breadth from north to south; being bounded by Holt Hundred and South Erpingham on the west; by the latter on the south; and by Tunstead on the east. The soil is generally a fertile loam, with substrata of marl and chalk lime, except at the east end, where a light sand prevails, but thrown up like the rest into a picturesque succession of hills, some of which are covered with thriving plantations; indeed, there is in every direction much timber in the fences, giving to the whole a pleasing sylvan appearance, which is finely contrasted by the white cliffs and marine views in the vicinity of Cromer and Mundesley,- the most fashionable bathing-places in Norfolk.

Though the coast in this district rises generally in bold swells or perpendicular cliffs of chalk, flint, sand, and gravel, it suffers continually from the wasting incursions of the ocean, which are said to average about one yard in breadth along the whole beach, where many houses have been washed down in the memory of the present inhabitants; and Shipden (off Cromer,) with some other parishes on record, were totally engulfed in the sea several centuries ago. From the friable nature of the cliffs, and a want of unanimity among the landowners, the artificial means taken here for the purpose of reducing the wasting influence of the mighty waters, have been less efficient than those adopted on other parts of the coast.

In the reign of Elizabeth, under the apprehension of invasion, a depot of military stores was placed in every Hundred; and that in North Erpingham consisted of 400lbs. of powder, 600 of matches, 270 of lead, 30 pick axes, 30 shod shovels, 30 bare shovels, 9 axes, 300 baskets, and 5 beetles. This Hundred forms the Deanery of Repps, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk; and its magistrates holds Petty Sessions on every alternate Monday, at the New Inn, Cromer, and have for their clerk Mr. R. Cooch, of Cromer.

It contains 32 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the county rate in 1843, and their territorial extent.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Aldborough +	293	1648	768
Antingham	271	1864	1490
Aylmerton +	289	1372	1180
Barningham } Norwood }	54	890	797
Barningham } Town }	86	854	740
Beckham (East) +	56	652	714
Beeston Regis +	265	728	740
Bessingham	139	896	508
Cromer +	1240	3860	628
Felbrigg +	133	1268	1205
Gimingham *	383	2368	1453
Gresham +	340	1582	1412
Gunton	69	1008	911
Hanworth	293	1834	1165
Knapton *	348	2622	1461
Matlaske	198	788	467
Metton	71	782	641
Mundesley *	454	1670	563
North Repps *	603	3014	2541
Overstrand *	240	636	423
Plumstead	190	1016	1166
Roughton	404	1428	1333
Runton +	424	1356	1142
Sherringham +	1134	2574	1741
Sidestrand *	162	674	429
South Repps *	813	3186	2018
Suffield	249	1772	1442
Sustead	143	734	486
Thorpe Market	261	1196	1088
Thurgarton	247	1748	950
Trimingham *	222	750	498
Trunch *	464	2246	1293

Total @	10,537	49,016	33,393

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@ The population of the Hundred, in 1831, was 10,160. Its annual value assessed to the Property Tax, was £35,543, in 1815, and £53,867, in 1842. It is in Aylsham Police Division.

Gimingham includes 68, and Sherringham 70 persons in the Union Workhouses. When the census was taken, 50 fishermen were absent from Sheringham. Cromer returns included 50 visitors, but 28 fishermen were absent.

+ ERPINGHAM UNION.-- The nine parishes marked * had an incorporated House of Industry, at Gimingham; and the nine marked thus + had one at Sherringham, but these are now the workhouses of Erpingham Union, which comprises all the 32 parishes of North Erpingham Hundred; 14 parishes in Holt Hundred, (see p. 733;[this is Holt Hundred description]) North Walsham, in Tunstead Hundred; and Baconsthorpe and West Beckham, in South Erpingham Hundred. These 49 parishes comprise an area of 104 square miles, or 63,638 acres, and had 20,513 inhabitants, in 1841, of whom 9934 were males, and 10,579 females. Their average annual expenditure from 1832 to 1835, before the formation of the Union, was £16,532. In 1838, it was only £8968; and in 1839, £9547. Their expenditure solely on in and out-door poor was £8348, in 1839; £8368, in 1842; and £2385, in the quarter ending September, 1844. The old Workhouses at Gimingham and Sherringham were adopted as the Union houses, after being altered at the cost of about £1500. They were built in 1805, and the former has room for upwards of 260, and the latter for more than 100 paupers. The aged and infirm are sent to the latter.

The masters and matrons are Mr. and Mrs. Rix, at Gimingham; and Mr. and Mrs. Bird, at Sherringham. Mr. J. S. Plumbly, of Southrepps, is union clerk; Jph. Covell, of Runton, is superintendent registrar: and Mr. C. W. Hotson, auditor. Seven surgeons are employed by the Union. The relieving officers are, Mr. H. T. Murrell, of Southrepps, and Mr. T. Murrell, of Sustead. The former is registrar of the North Walsham District; the latter for Cromer District; and Mr. J. Banks, of Holt, for Holt District.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 748 to 750) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Barningham Norwood/North Barningham, Beckham (East)/East Beckham, North Repps/Northrepps, Sherringham/Sheringham, South Repps/Southrepps

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Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.

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Norfolk Hundreds

White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

EYNESFORD HUNDRED

Is of an irregular, oblong figure, 12 miles in length from north to south, and about seven miles in breadth; bounded on the south by Forehoe and Mitford; on the west, by Launditch and Gallow; on the north, by Holt Hundred; and on the east, by South Erpingham and Taverham Hundreds.

The soil is in general a fertile loam, with substratums of chalk and marl, and a large portion of it lies in the vale of the river Wensum, which forms the western boundary from Guist to Bylaugh, from whence it crosses the hundred by a circuitous channel to Attlebridge, where it again turns to the south, and forms the western border as far as Ringland, flowing from thence in an easterly direction to Norwich. This river, in several places, expands into a broad stream, and the tides are said to have anciently flowed up it as far as Billingford. Several smaller streams also contribute to the beauty and fertility of this hundred, which comprises 30 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the county rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres:-

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
* Alderford	44	656	429
+ Bawdeswell	582	2118	1163
+ Billingford	353	2072	1797
+ Bintree	409	2104	1417
* Brandiston	137	1276	737
+ Bylaugh	85	968	1545
+ Elsing	457	2190	1407
Foulsham	1048	5796	3180
+ Foxley	293	2170	1619
Guestwick	200	2158	1625
+ Guist	425	2664	1637
Hackford-by-Reepham @	694	2600	809
* Haveringland	160	1770	2000
Hindolveston	839	3352	2487
+ Lyng	601	2844	1879
* Morton-on-the-Hill	165	834	976
Reepham-with- } Kerdiston @ }	389 201	4420	2423
* Ringland	386	1436	1119
Sall	267	2812	1758
+ Sparham	321	2274	1666
* Swannington	358	1814	1281
Themelthorpe	94	884	652
Thurning	166	1932	1484
+ Twyford	94	908	522
* Weston	411	3596	2697
Whitwell @	519	2686	1434
* Witchingham (Great)	624	3762	2083
* Witchingham L.	45	1106	714
Wood-Dalling	560	3382	2396
Wood-Norton	325	2498	1700

TOTAL !	11,252	69,082	46,637

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* + UNIONS. -- The ten parishes marked thus + are in Mitford and Launditch Union, (see page 307; [this is in Mitford Hundred description]) the nine marked thus * are in St. Faith's Union; and the other 11 are in Aylsham Union. Before the formation of these Unions, there was an incorporated Workhouse at Bawdeswell, for seven parishes, and another at Reepham for four parishes.

@ Hackford, Kerdiston, and Whitwell, comprise the chief part of the market town of REEPHAM, where there are two churches in one churchyard, for the four parishes.

! The population of Eynesford Hundred, in 1831, was 10,643. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £48,259, in 1815, and £76,334 in 1842. Its territorial extent, including wastes, roads. &c., is upwards of 50,000A.

PETTY SESSIONS for this Hundred are held every Monday, alternately at Foulsham and Reepham. Mr. Robert Dench, of Foulsham, is clerk to the magistrates.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 344 to 345) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Bintree/Bintry, Sall/Salle, Weston/Weston Longville, Witchingham (Great)/Great Witchingham, Witchingham L./Little Witchingham

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General description and layout of Hundreds.
Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.
Parishes are mostly in the Deanery of Sparham except for Hindolveston which is in the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich Cathedral.
Note that "Eynsford" is an alternative spelling for this Hundred.

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Norfolk Hundreds

White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

FOREHOE HUNDRED

Is of an irregular oblong figure, 12 miles in length, and from 6 to 8 in breadth; bounded on the west by Wayland and Mitford, on the south by Shropham and Depwade, on the east by Humbleyard and the county of the city of Norwich, and on the north by Eynesford and Taverham. It is divided from the latter by the River Wensum, and is intersected by the Yare and several smaller streams, and crossed by three excellent turnpikes, from Norwich, to Watton, East Dereham, and Thetford; and parallel with the latter, its southern part is traversed by the Norwich and Brandon Railway, passing within a mile south of Wymondham.

It has its name from four hills, near Carlton, where the Hundred Court was formerly held; but it was then called a Hundred and a Half, and belonged to the Crown, till King John and his successors granted most of the manors to the Earl of Arundel and John le Mareschall, lord of Hingham, from whom they have passed to Lord Wodehouse, Lord Stafford, and many others; but the chief manor, in the extensive parish of Wymondham, which was called the Half Hundred, is still held by the Crown.

Forehoe forms, with Mitford, the DEANERY OF HINGHAM, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and is an extensive district of fertile and highly improved land, nearly all the commons having been enclosed during the present and the latter part of the last century.

All the 24 parishes in Forehoe Hundred, except Honingham (in St. Faith's Union,) were incorporated by act of Parliament, in 1776, for the maintenance of their poor, and the erection of a HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, at Wicklewood, at the cost of £11,000, borrowed, at five per cent interest, on a tontine scheme of 110 shares. Each subscriber of £100 named some young person on whose life his annuity was to depend; and of these nominees only about 30 survive, so that the interest of the £11,000 is now divided among about 30 shareholders, and will ultimately become the sole property of that person whose nominee may be the last survivor.

This large Workhouse has accommodations for 400 paupers, but it has seldom half that number, having only 135 in July 1841, and 144 in Nov. 1844. The 23 incorporated parishes of Forehoe Hundred comprise about 36,500 acres, and 13,520 inhabitants. Their annual expenditure, in support of in and out-door poor, since 1838, has averaged only about £4300; but the amount for the quarter ending Sept. 1844 was £1513.

The "Board of Directors and Acting Guardians" are still governed by their own local act of Parliament, though they have conformed to some of the regulations of the New Poor Law. Mr. John Freeman Bayfield, of Norwich, is clerk to the Board; Mr. Stephen Wade, master of the Workhouse; and the Rev. M.B. Darby, chaplain.

Five surgeons are appointed for attending the poor. Mr. Edward Press, of Hingham, is Superintendent Registrar of the incorporated parishes; and the District Registrars are, Mr. Robert Tunaley, of Wymondham, and Mr. Wm. Sturgess, of Bawburgh.

PETTY SESSIONS, for the Hundred of Forehoe, are held on the first Tuesday in every month, at the White Hart, Hingham; and on the 3rd Tuesday, at the King's Head, Wymondham. Mr. J.S. Cann, of Wymondham is clerk to the Magistrates.

The following enumeration of the 24 parishes of this Hundred shews their population in 1841, their annual value, as assessed to the county rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
Barford	417	2478	1059
Barnham-Broom	494	3122	1710
Bawburgh	404	2142	1362
Bowthorpe	34	586	600
Brandon Parva	222	1494	950
Carleton-Forehoe	151	1078	688
Colton	282	1448	893
Costessey, or } Cossey }	1074	3934	2648
Coston	48	474	353
Crownthorpe	111	938	671
Deopham	525	2704	1626
Easton	279	1824	1557
Hackford	264	1300	721
Hingham	1691	8224	3525
Honingham	358	2962	2527
Kimberley	148	2150	1372
Marlingford	195	1178	617
Morley St. Botolph	328	1568	819
Morley St. Peter	191	1692	1009
Runhall	248	1176	791
Welborne	234	1294	733
Wicklewood *	775	2906	1527
Wramplingham	236	1678	830
Wymondham *	5179	23,014	10,484

Total +	13,888	71,364	39,042

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* Wicklewood includes 135 persons in the Forehoe Incorporated Workhouse, noticed above; and Wymondham includes 24 in the Bridewell. The latter extensive parish is in six divisions.
+ Forehoe Hundred had 13,838 inhabitants, in 1831. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £56,618, in 1815, and £80,379, in 1842. It is in Long Stratton, Dereham, and Hockham Police Divisions.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 430 to 431) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Hackford/Hackford (near Wymondham)

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Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.

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Norfolk Hundreds

White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

FREEBRIDGE MARSHLAND.

THIS HUNDRED forms a remarkably level district of rich alluvial marshes and fens, at the western extremity of the county, of an irregular triangular figure, about 14 miles in its greatest length from north to south, and 7 in breadth from east to west, comprising upwards of 54,500 acres, completely insulated, -- being bounded on the north by the Wash; on the east by the Great Ouse river; on the west by the river Nene, which divides it from Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire; and on the south by Podike, which separates it from the fens of Clackclose Hundred.

The soil consists of alternate layers of moor and silt, in some places found to reach a great depth, with a subsoil of blue clay. This campaign territory was formerly annexed to Freebridge-Lynn, under the title of "Freebridge Hundred and Half," and it still constitutes, with that district, the Deanery of Lynn, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich.

The whole of Marshland has at some period been under water, and is now secured from the incursions of the ocean by ranges of artificial BANKS. These, standing at considerable distances from each other, show the progressive steps taken by the hand of skill and industry, to secure the boon which nature had bestowed. The first, or inner rampart, is attributed to the Romans. Some writers are of opinion that this tract, and the adjacent fens of Lincolnshire and the Isle of Ely, were originally firm and dry land, afterwards ingulphed in the ocean by some early convulsion of nature, which they consider to be evident from great numbers of timber trees having been found below the surface, which it is certain will not grow in watery, moorish places; besides, it is observable, that where they have been discovered, in digging channels and drains, their roots have been always observed to stand in the firm earth, below the alluvial soil. Dugdale says, he saw "great nambers[sic] of oak and fir trees taken up in the fens, near Thorney." Many others were also dug up at the cutting of that large channel, called the Downham Eau; and near Magdalen Bridge, there were found, at the setting down of a large sluice, seventeen feet below the surface, several furze bushes, also nut trees pressed flat down, with nuts sound and firm lying near them.

The great work of recovering from the tides this extensive level, was evidently continued with much success by the Saxons, after the departure of the Romans; for, according to the Domesday survey, all the parishes now existing in Marshland were extant in the days of Edward the Confessor; but some of them have since been considerably increased by subsequent embankments in the estuaries of the Ouse and the Nene, which open out into the large bay called the Wash -- (vide p.515.[History of King's Lynn section]) The estuary of the Nene is called the CROSS KEYS WASH, and divides Norfolk from Lincolnshire. The only passage between the two counties was by a precarious road or track, two miles in length, across the sands which were left nearly dry at low water, from the Cross Keys House in Marshland, to the Wash House near Long Sutton, in Lincolnshire. This passage was extremely dangerous without a guide, and lives were sometimes lost in attempting to ford it; but in 1825, an act of Parliament was obtained, for throwing a BRIDGE across the narrow channel of the Nene, on the Lincolnshire side, and extending from it a high EMBANKED ROAD across the broad Wash to the Cross Keys House, in Norfolk; and this great work was completed in July, 1831, at an immense expense, which is remunerated by the tolls taken on the bridge, and the recovery of about 15,000 acres of land from the influx of the tides.

It was commenced by cutting a new out-fall for the river Nene, which is of sufficient depth to allow a man-of-war to float in it close to the bridge, which is commonly called Sutton Bridge, and is a massive structure of British oak, with a moveable cast iron centre, 52 feet in span. The Embankment leading from it to the Cross Keys, in Marshland, is nearly two miles long; and its construction occupied 900 men, and 260 horses, about three years and a half.

An earlier improvement on the opposite side of Marshland, is the EAU-BRINK CUT, (vide p. 516,[History of King's Lynn section]) by which a broad and circuitous part of the Great Ouse river, betwixt Lynn and St. Germain's Bridge, has been diverted into a straight and deep channel, crossed by one of the largest and handsomest wooden bridges in England, which, with the embanked road and bridge over Cross Keys Wash, and great improvements in all the turnpikes, entirely frees the long obstructed line of communication from Lincolnshire through Lynn, to the eastern part of Norfolk, as has been seen at a preceding page. The Eau-Brink Cut, (finished in 1821,) besides improving the navigation of the Ouse, serves as a better out-fall than the old channel for the waters of the numerous DRAINS which intersect Marshland in every direction, and are crossed by upwards of 150 bridges. Great improvements were made here during the latter part of last century, especially on the sea-coast, in the parishes of Terrington, Clenchwarton, and North Lynn; where COUNT BENTINCK, in the years 1773--4, embanked in, at a vast expense, upwards of a thousand acres of salt marshes. His descendants possess the large estates here, which were granted by William III., to the Earl of Portland, who came over in the suite of that monarch from the Netherlands, at the glorious Revolution. -- Count Bentinck was captain of the Niger man-of-war in the English service. In prosecuting his improvement of the salt marshes, he caught the fen fever, of which he died about the close of 1774. For improving the drainage of the Middle Level of the Fens, and the navigation of the Great Ouse, a New Cut, 12 miles in length, is now constructing, as noticed at page 518 [History of King's Lynn section]. It is also in contemplation to construct a General Out-fall for the rivers Ouse, Nene, Welland, and Witham, and thereby recover from the GREAT WASH, about 90,000 acres of land, as already stated at page 517 [History of King's Lynn section].

The SMEETH AND FEN, comprising 7,263A. 1R. 34P., in the southern part of Marshland, have been drained and divided among the owners of 525 common-rights, under the powers of an Act of Parliament passed in 1796, and at the expense of upwards of £50,000; of which £10,000 was expended in 1833, in cutting a wide and deep drain, 4½ miles long, from Tilney Fen-End to the Eau-Brink Cut, near St. Germain's, for the purpose of superseding the four wind-mills, which formerly pumped the water from the lower into the higher levels. A drainage rate is charged by the commissioners on the land-owners, amounting to about 2s. 7d. per acre per annum. -- This extensive and now fertile tract, was, from time immemorial, the common of the parishes called the Seven Towns of Marshland, among which the 525 common-rights were divided as follows:-- Emneth, 73; Walsoken, 88; West Walton, 62; Walpole St. Peter, 81; Walpole St. Andrew, 25; Terrington St. Clement, 67; Terrington St. John, 41; Tilney All Saints, 33; Tilney St. Lawrence, 22; Tilney-cum-Islington, 19 ; and Clenchwarton, 14.

The land awarded to each common-right varied from 9 to 15 acres, according to the quality of the soil; and the parochial allotments extend in narrow slips to the southern termination of the fen, distant more than seven miles from some of the parish churches.

The SMEETH, comprising only 1,572A. 22P., is on the north side of the fen, and was celebrated as a summer pasture in the time of James I., when a courtier told that monarch, at his coming to the crown of England, "that if over night a wand or rod was laid on the ground, by the morning it would be covered with grass of that night's growth;" to which the King jocosely replied, "that he knew some grounds in Scotland, where, if a horse was put in over night, they could not see or discern him in the morning."

The FEN, (including the Broad, Short, and Wellmoor Fens,) comprises 5,691 acres, now forming rich arable and meadow land, which, before the enclosure, was a wild morass, abounding in reeds and large pools of water, frequented by numerous flocks of wild fowl, of which great quantities were shot or decoyed by the poor inhabitants of the "Seven Towns," who evinced much dissatisfaction at the enclosure, which destroyed their aquatic sports and profits, and all their other interest in the Smeeth and Fen. Tradition says that, in ancient times, the people had a dispute with the lords of the manors, respecting their common-rights; when one HICKIFRIC, of gigantic stature, taking a cart-wheel for a shield, and the axletree for a sword, repelled the invaders. A large grave-stone, in Tilney churchyard, having upon it a cross, so decorated with ornaments as to appear something like a wheel, is still shewn by the credulous as the grave of this fabulous giant.

Marshland, being nearly encompassed by the ocean and navigable rivers, affording an easy transit for building materials, has much better CHURCHES than any other part of Norfolk, being all noble structures, chiefly of large free-stone. Many of these churches have lately been much improved by an excellent system of ventilation and draining round their foundations.

The Hundred of Freebridge Marshland contains seventeen parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent.

PARISHES.	Pop.	Annl. Value £.	Acres.
* Clenchwarton	597	5,510	2,880
* Emneth	1,065	7,100	3,500
Lynn (West)	477	3,708	1,500
Lynn (North)	38	1,094	914
* Terrington St. Clement	1,675	15,366	7,760
* Terrington St. John	682	5,339	2,402
* Tilney All Saints	441	5,094	2,640
* Tilney-cum-Islington	251	2,852	1,510
* Tilney St. Lawrence	762	5,948	3,076
* Walpole St. Andrew	565	4,516	4,000
* Walpole St. Peter	1,335	14,132	7,200
* Walsoken @	2,562	11,362	3,000
* Walton (West)	954	9,810	5,516
Wiggenhall St. Germ.	625	2,796	1,219
Wiggenhall St. Mary [Vir.]	292	5,218	2,500
Wiggenhall St. Mary } Magdalen }	775	4,652	4,000
Wiggenhall St. Peter	112	1,764	898

TOTAL +	13,237	106,252	54,515

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The Annual Value of the Hundred, as assessed to the Income and Property Tax, was £102,054 in 1815; and £117,342 in 1842.

PETTY SESSIONS for the Hundred of Marshland are held on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month, at the Police Station, in Terrington St. Clement's. The whole of Marshland is in Wiggenhall Police Division.

* The eleven parishes marked *, form the "Seven Towns," participating in the Smeeth and Fen; and are in Wisbech Union. The four Wiggenhall parishes are in Downham Union; and West and North Lynn are in King's Lynn Union. (see page 508 [History of King's Lynn section].) The fens of Wiggenhall, at the south end of Marshland, are under a separate Drainage Act. In 1793, there was a destructive rot among the Marshland sheep; but the marshes and fens being well drained, and the roads greatly improved, this disease, and that human affliction the ague, are now of rare occurrence in this monotonous, but fertile region.

+ NEW SALT MARSH, an Extra Parochial tract lately reclaimed and embanked in from the Wash, is returned with the population of this Hundred, in 1841, as having 29 inhabitants, though it is locally situated in Elloe Wapentake, Lincolnshire. Its area is not stated, but it is part of the 15,000A. recovered from Cross Key's Wash, since the construction of the Embanked Road, noticed at page 563 [this is part of this text].

@ Walsoken is a suburb of Wisbech.

WISBECH UNION comprises, besides the eleven parishes marked * in the above table, seven parishes in Cambridgeshire, viz:-- Wisbech St. Mary and St. Peter, Newton, Leverington, Tydd St. Giles, Elm, and Parson Drove. It also comprises Outwell and Upwell, which are divided into four townships, each of these parishes being partly in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, and partly in Clackclose Hundred, Norfolk.

The 22 parishes and townships of this Union had 31,484 inhabitants in 1841, of whom 17,341 were in Cambridgeshire, and 14,143 in Norfolk. They comprise an area of 184 square miles, and their expenditure, for the relief of their poor, for the year ending March 1841, was £13,171, and for the quarter ending June 1844, £4,050 16s. 2d.

Their average annual expenditure, during the three years preceding the formation of the Union, was £17,386.

The WORKHOUSE is at Wisbech, and was built in 1838, at the cost of about £7,000, and has room for more than 400 inmates. It is a commodious structure of white brick, and its grounds extend over three acres. The number of paupers relieved during the quarter ending June 1844, was 378 in-door, and 3,368 out-door.

Mr. Wm. Goddard Jackson is Union Clerk and Superintendent Registrar; and Mr. Sykes Hargrave is Master of the Workhouse. Mr. Wm. Adams is Registrar of Marriages for the whole Union, and the following are the Districts, and Registrars of Births and Deaths, viz:-- Wisbech, Mr. Wm. Adams; Leverington, Mr. John Bull; Terrington, Mr. John Egarr; Upwell and Outwell, Mr. John Adkins; Walpole, Mr. Wm. Dennis; and Walsoken, Mr. Wm. Hill.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 562 to 565) above are given below together with the spelling as found in the list of parishes pages :- Wiggenhall St. Germ/Wiggenhall St. German

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General description and layout of Hundreds.
Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.
The Deanery of Lynn Marshland contains some of the parishes in this Hundred.

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Norfolk: Historical Geography

Hundreds

Norfolk has 700+ parishes and these were grouped into areas called hundreds which were used as sub-county areas for administrative and taxation purposes until 1834. Some small alterations occured between the Domesday Survey and this date. In 1834 the Poor Law unions replaced them as the unit of local government and some names lived on although the parishes contained in these unions are not always the same as the original hundreds. These units were then reorganised again in 1974.

The 33 hundreds follow in alphabetical order together with an alphabetical list of the parishes in each. In addition the County of the City of Norwich and the towns of Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn and Thetford and their constituent parishes are listed separately under the City and Boroughs section.

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Towns and Parishes
Poor Law Unions
Hundred descriptions:
- Directories - Whites 1845
There is also a place to Hundred locater

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The approximate layout of the Hundreds in the county is as follows:

                              NORTH SEA
 
                        County of NORFOLK
                        __       ____
                 ______/  \_____/    \_________    C=Cromer
 L              /                      HOLT    \_C__
 I             /       BROTHER  NORTH        NORTH  \__
 N            /SMITHDON  CROSS  GREENHOE   ERPINGHAM   \ 
 C  Boro' of /                                          \__
 S KL=King's |   DOCKING                SOUTH     TUNSTEAD \_ 
       Lynn  )               GALLOW     ERPINGHAM            \_
      ____  / FREEBRIDGE                            HAPPING    \_
     /    \ |    LYNN              EYNESFORD                WEST \
    /      KL            LAUNDITCH         TAVERHAM          FLEGG\_ 
  _/                                                  WALSHAM       \
 |FREEBRIDGE                                   -N-              EAST \
 | MARSHLAND                 MITFORD              BLOFIELD     FLEGG |
  \_                                                             __  |
 C  \               SOUTH          FOREHOE        HENSTEAD      /  \ |
 A  |             GREENHOE                  HUMBLE              |   GY 
 M  | CLACKCLOSE            WAYLAND          YARD       CLAVERING\ 
 B  |                                             LODDON      __  ) GY=Boro'
 S  \_____                                             /\/\__/  \_) of Great
          \   GRIMSHOE      SHROPHAM    DEPWADE        \            Yarmouth
           \        _______                           /
            \______/      /   GUILTCROSS      EARSHAM/ -N- =City of
                         T___  ______    DISS    ___/       Norwich 
              T=Boro' of    \/      \___D______/
                Thetford       D=Diss
 
                                 County of SUFFOLK

For a county map showing all the Hundreds and detailed maps of each see the Parish Maps page.

Alphabetical list of hundreds (as they existed in 1834) follows with parishes contained therein. Links from each hundred heading are to the White's 1845 descriptions. See following notes where "(*)" is against a parish name.

Blofield

Blofield, Braydeston (or Bradeston), Brundall, Buckenham (Buckenham Ferry), Burlingham North (Burlingham St. Andrew & St. Peter)(*), Burlingham South (Burlingham St. Edmund), Cantley(*), Freethorpe(*), Great Plumstead, Hasingham (Hassingham), Limpenhoe, Lingwood, Little Plumstead, Postwick(*), Southwood, Strumpshaw, Thorpe St. Andrew (or Thorpe-next-Norwich), Witton (near Blofield).

Parishes marked "(*)" had detached portions - for details and maps see the Detached portions section.

Brothercross

Burnham-Deepdale, Burnham-Norton, Burnham-Overy, Burnham Sutton-cum-Burnham Ulph, Burnham-Thorpe, Burnham-Westgate, North Creake, South Creake, Waterden.

Clackclose

Barton Bendish, Beechamwell, Bexwell, Boughton, Crimplesham, Denver, Downham Market, Fincham, Fordham, Hilgay(*), Holme next Runcton, Marham, Nordelph (1909+), Outwell (part of), Redmere (1858-1895), Roxham, Ryston, Shingham (note that a small part is in South Greenhoe Hundred), Shouldham, Shouldham-Thorpe, South Runcton, Southery, Stoke Ferry, Stow-Bardolph, Stradsett, Tottenhill, Upwell (part of), Wallington cum Thorpland, Watlington, Welney (part of), Wereham, West Dereham, Wimbotsham, Wormegay, Wretton.

Note i) that the other parts of the parishes of Outwell, Upwell and Welney are all in Wisbech Hundred in Cambridgeshire.
ii) that Redmere is detached and south of Feltwell Fens and the River Ouse between the hundred of Grimshoe and north of Littleport which is in Witchford Hundred, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
"(*)" South Hilgay was a detached roughly triangular portion separated from Hilgay by Southery. Its northern apex was Brandon Creek/River Ouse junction and its extent was c. 0.5 mile to the south west, south and south east and it became in 1866 part of Little Ouse.

Clavering

This hundred is split in two parts by Loddon Hundred.

The North Western section parishes are followed by (W) and the others are in the South Eastern section.

Aldeby, Brooke (W), Bergh Apton (W), Burgh St. Peter, Ellingham, Geldeston, Gillingham All Saints & Gillingham St. Mary, Haddiscoe, Hales, Heckingham, Howe (W), Kirby Cane, Norton Subcourse, Raveningham(*), Stockton(*), Thorpe next Haddiscoe, Thurlton, Toft Monks(*), Wheatacre All Saints (Wheatacre Burgh).

Parishes marked "(*)" had detached portions - for details and maps see the Detached portions section.

Depwade

Ashwellthorpe, Aslacton, Bunwell, Carleton-Rode, Forncett St. Mary, Forncett St. Peter, Fritton, Fundenhall, Great Moulton (Moulton St Michael), Hapton, Hardwick, Hempnall, Morningthorpe, Shelton, Stratton St. Mary, Stratton St. Michael, Tacolneston(e), Tasburgh, Tharston, Tibenham, Wacton.

Diss

Bressingham, Burston, Dickleburgh (all except hamlet of Langmere in Earsham Hundred), Diss, Fersfield, Frenze, Gissing, Roydon (near Diss), Scole, Shelfanger, Shimpling, Thelveton (or Thelton), Thorpe Parva, Tivetshall St. Margaret, Tivetshall St. Mary, Winfarthing.

Further info can be found:

Bryant, Thomas Hugh: The churches of Norfolk: Hundred of Diss.
[Norwich: Norwich Mercury under the auspices of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1915]

Docking

This hundred existed at the time of the Domesday but was merged (before 1834) with Smithdon and these parishes are also included there.

Barwick, Bircham Newton, Bircham Tofts, Brancaster, Choseley, Docking, Fring, Great Bircham, Shernborne, Snettisham, Thornham, Titchwell.

Earsham

Alburgh, Billingford (near Diss), Brockdish, Denton, Earsham, Langmere (hamlet of Dickleburgh parish - rest is in Diss Hundred), Mendham (part of), Needham, Pulham St. Mary Magdalen (or Pulham Market), Pulham St. Mary-the-Virgin, Redenhall with Harleston, Rushall, Starston, Thorpe Abbotts, Wortwell.

Note that Mendham has only c.1200 acres in Norfolk and the rest lie in the Suffolk hundred of Hoxne.

East Flegg (see Flegg, East)

Erpingham, North

Aldborough, Antingham, Aylmerton, Barningham-Norwood, Barningham Town (or Barningham-Winter), Beeston Regis, Bessingham, Cromer, East Beckham, Felbrigg, Gimingham, Gresham, Gunton, Hanworth, Knapton, Matlask(e), Metton, Mundesley (Mundsley), North Repps, Overstrand, Plumstead, Roughton, Runton, Sheringham, Sidestrand, South Repps, Suffield, Sustead, Thorpe Market, Thurgarton, Trimingham, Trunch.

Further info can be found:

Rye, Walter: Some rough materials for a history of the hundred of North Erpingham in the county of Norfolk. 3 volumes.
[Norwich, Goose, Vol 1:1883, Vol 2:1885, Vol 3:1889]
Armstrong, Mostyn John: The history of Norfolk; Hundred of North Erpingham.
[Norwich: M. Booth, 1781, Originally published as part of volume 3 of "History and antiquities of the county of Norfolk".]

Erpingham, South

Alby, Aylsham, Baconsthorpe(*), Banningham, Barningham Parva, Belaugh, Blickling, Booton, Brampton, Burgh, Buxton, Calthorpe, Cawston, Colby, Coltishall, Corpusty, Erpingham, Hautbois-Magna (Great Hautbois), Hevingham, Heydon, Ingworth, Irmingland, Itteringham, Lammas with Little Hautbois, Mannington, Marsham, Oulton, Oxnead, Saxthorpe, Scottow, Skeyton, Stratton Strawless, Swanton Abbot, Thwaite, Tuttington, West Beckham(*), Wickmere, Wolterton.

Note that Baconsthorpe and West Beckham are detached and between the hundreds of Holt and North Erpingham.

Eynsford

Alderford, Bawdeswell, Billingford (near East Dereham), Bintry (Bintree), Brandiston(e), Bylaugh, Elsing, Foulsham, Foxley, Great Witchingham, Guestwick, Guist, Hackford by Reepham, Haveringland, Hindolveston, Kerdiston, Little Witchingham, Lyng, Morton-on-the-Hill, Reepham, Ringland, Salle, Sparham, Swannington, Thelmelthorpe, Thurning, Twyford, Weston Longville, Whitwell, Wood Dalling, Wood Norton.

Note that "Eynesford" is an alternative spelling.

Flegg, East

Caister next Yarmouth, Filby, Mautby, Ormesby St. Margaret, Ormesby St. Michael, Runham(*), Runham Vauxhall (1894), Scratby, Stokesby with Herringby, Thrigby.

Note that Runham Vauxhall was created in 1894 out of Runham.
Parishes marked "(*)" had detached portions - for details and maps see the Detached portions section.

Flegg, West

Ashby, Billockby, Burgh St. Margaret & St. Mary(*), Clippesby, East Somerton, Hemsby, Martham, Oby, Repps with Bastwick, Rollesby, Thurne (or Thirne), West Somerton, Winterton.

Note that Burgh St. Margaret & St. Mary includes a detached portion to the south west of Billockby.

Forehoe

Barford, Barnham-Broom, Bawburgh, Bowthorpe, Brandon Parva, Carleton-Forehoe, Colton, Costessey (or Cossey), Coston, Crownthorpe, Deopham, Easton, Hackford (near Wymondham), Hingham, Honingham, Kimberley, Marlingford, Morley St. Botolph, Morley St. Peter, Runhall, Welborne, Wicklewood, Wramplingham, Wymondham.

Freebridge

Originally contained Freebridge-Lynn and Freebridge-Marshland and was known as "Freebridge Hundred and a Half".

Freebridge-Lynn

Anmer, Ashwicken, Babingley, Bawsey, Castle Acre, Castle Rising, Congham, Dersingham, East Walton, East Winch, Flitcham cum Appleton, Gayton, Gayton Thorpe, Gaywood, Great Massingham, Grimstone, Harpley, Hillington, Leziate, Little Massingham, Middleton, Mintlyn, North Runcton, North Wootton, Pentney, Roydon (near King's Lynn), Sandringham, Setchey, South Wootton, West Bilney, West Newton, West Winch, West Acre, Wolferton (or Wolverton).

Freebridge-Marshland

Central Wingland(*), Clenchwarton(*), Emneth, St. Edmund (North Lynn), St. Peter (West Lynn), Marshland St James (1922), Terrington St. Clement(*), Terrington St. John(*), Tilney All Saints(*), Tilney-cum-Islington(*), Tilney St. Lawrence(*), Walpole St. Andrew(*), Walpole St. Peter(*), Walsoken(*), Walton (West)(*), Wiggenhall St. German, Wiggenhall St. Mary Magdalen, Wiggenhall St. Mary the Virgin(*), Wiggenhall St. Peter.

Further info can be found:

Marlowe, Christopher, fl.1926: People and places in marshland
[London: Palmer, 1927]
Beloe, Edward Milligen: Freebridge Marshland Hundred and the making of Lynn
[Norwich: Goose, 1896]
Rye, Walter: Monumental inscriptions in the marshland churches, Norfolk
From notes made by Thomas Martin (1697-1771)
[Norwich: printed for the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1886]

Notes

Parishes marked "(*)" had detached portions - for maps showing these see the Detached portions section.
Marshland St James was formed in 1922 from detached parts of Clenchwarton, Emneth, Terrington St Clement, Terrington St John, Tilney All Saints, Tilney St Lawrence, Tilney cum Islington, Walpole St Andrew, Walpole St Peter and West Walton.
Central Wingland was initially created in 1831 from tidal marshland and subsequently added to at later dates. The 2 parts (North and South sections) are shown on the above maps. In Nov-1897 the Southern section of the parish was added to Terrington St. Clement and the Northern section was moved to Elloe Wapentake in "Parts of Holland" in Lincolnshire.
In 1886 a detached part of Walpole St. Andrew was added to Walpole St. Peter (and this lost detached parts which were added to Walpole St. Andrew).

Gallow

Alethorp (or Althorpe), Bagthorpe, Barmer, Broomsthorpe, Dunton-cum-Doughton, East Barsham, East Raynham (or Rainham St. Mary), East Rudham, Fakenham (or Fakenham Lancaster), Fulmodeston cum Croxton, Great Ryburgh, Helhoughton, Hempton, Kettlestone, Little Ryburgh, Little Snoring, New Houghton, North Barsham, Pensthorpe, Pudding Norton, Sculthorpe, Shereford, South Raynham (or Rainham St. Martin), Stibbard, Syderstone, Tatterford, Tattersett (or Gatesend), Testerton, Toftrees, West Barsham, West Raynham (or Rainham St. Margaret), West Rudham.

Greenhoe, North

Barney, Binham, Cockthorpe, Egmere, Field Dalling, Great Snoring, Great Walsingham, Hindringham, Holkham, Houghton-in-the-Dale (or Houghton St. Giles/Houghton in-the-Hole), Little Walsingham, Quarles, Stiffkey, Thursford, Warham All Saints, Warham St. Mary, Wells-next-the-Sea, Wighton.

Greenhoe, South

Bodney, Caldecote, Cockley-Cley, Didlington, East Bradenham, Foulden, Gooderstone, Great Cressingham, Hilborough, Holme Hale, Houghton-on-the-Hill, Langford, Little Cressingham, Narborough (Narburgh), Narford, Necton, Newton by Castleacre, North Pickenham, Oxborough, South Pickenham, Shingham (small part only, mostly in Clackclose Hundred), Southacre, Sporle with Palgrave, Swaffham, West Bradenham.

Grimshoe

Buckenham Tofts (or Buckenham Parva), Colveston, Cranwich, Croxton (near Thetford), Feltwell Anchor (1858), Feltwell St. Mary & St. Nicholas, Hockwold cum Wilton, Ickburgh (Igborough), Lynford, Methwold, Mundford, Northwold, Santon (or Santon House), Stanford, Sturston, Weeting with Broomhill (Weeting All Saints), West Tofts, Whittington (1874).

Notes - A small part of Brandon was assessed with this hundred in 1842. Whittington was a hamlet in Northwold until 1874.

Guiltcross

Banham, Blo' Norton (Norton Bell'eau), East Harling, Garboldisham, Gasthorpe, Kenninghall, North Lopham, Quidenham (Quiddenham), Riddlesworth, Rushford (part of), Snarehill (Great and Little), South Lopham, West Harling.

This Hundred is sometimes refered to as Giltcross. Note that part of Rushford called the Rushford Lodge Estate (comprising c.1495 Acres) lies in the Suffolk hundred of Blackbourn.

Happing

Brumstead, Catfield, East Ruston, Happisburgh (or Hasbro'), Hempstead with Eccles (near Stalham), Hickling, Horsey-next-the-Sea, Ingham, Lessingham, Ludham, Palling-near-the-Sea (or Sea Palling), Potter Heigham, Stalham, Sutton, Walcott, Waxham.

Henstead

Arminghall, Bixley, Bramerton, Caistor St.Edmund, Framingham Earl, Framingham Pigot, Holverstone, Kirby Bedon, Poringland Great (or East), Poringland Little (or West), Rockland St. Mary, Saxlingham-Nethergate, Saxlingham-Thorpe, Shotesham All Saints (Shottesham All Saints), Shotesham St. Mary & St. Martin, Stoke Holy Cross, Surlingham, Trowse (or Trowse Newton), Whitlingham, Yelverton.

Holt

Bale (or Bathley), Bayfield, Blakeney, Bodham, Briningham, Brinton, Briston, Cley-next-the-Sea, Edgefield, Glandford, Gunthorpe, Hempstead (by Holt), Holt, Hunworth, Kelling, Langham, Letheringsett, Melton Constable with Burgh Parva, Morston, Salthouse, Saxlingham, Sharrington, Stody, Swanton Novers, Thornage, Weybourne, Wiveton.

Further info can be found:

Norfolk Record Society; 1: Calender of Frere mss.: hundred of Holt; Muster roll: hundred of North Greenhoe, circa 1523 [and] Norwich subscriptions to the voluntary gift of 1662
[Norwich: 1931]
Dew, Walton N.: The monumental inscriptions in the hundred of Holt, in the county of Norfolk; edited by W. Rye
[Norwich: Goose, 1885]

Humbleyard

Bracon Ash, Colney, Cringleford, Dunston, East Carleton, Flordon, Great Melton (or Melton Magna), Hethel, Hethersett, Intwood, Keswick, Ketteringham, Little Melton (or Melton Parva), Markshall, Mulbarton, Newton Flotman, Swainsthorpe, Swardeston, Wreningham.

Lackford (Suffolk)

Brandon (SFK), Santon Downham (SFK), Thetford St. Cuthbert (part), Thetford St. Peter (part).

Note that the above parishes of Thetford St. Cuthbert and Thetford St. Peter are administrated with the rest of the Borough of Thetford.

Launditch

Beeston, Beetley, Brisley, Colkirk, East Bilney, Dillington (hamlet of East Dereham parish - rest is in Mitford Hundred), East Lexham, Gateley, Great Dunham, Great Fransham, Gressenhall, Hoe, Horningtoft, Kempston, Litcham, Little Bittering, Little Dunham, Little Fransham, Longham, Mileham, North Elmham, Oxwick, Pattesley, Rougham, Scarning, Stanfield, Swanton Morley, Tittleshall, Weasenham All Saints(*), Weasenham St. Peter, Wellingham, Wendling, West Lexham, Whissonsett, Worthing.

Further info can be found:

Carthew, George Alfred: The hundred of Launditch and deanery of Brisley, in the county of Norfolk: evidences and topographical notes. 3 volumes.
[Norwich: Miller & Leavins, 1877-1879]

Weasenham All Saints had a detached portion to the NW (centered on Upper House Farm - TF825236).

Loddon

Alpington, Ashby, Bedingham, Broome, Carleton St. Peter, Chedgrave, Claxton, Ditchingham, Hardley, Hedenham, Hellington, Kirstead, Langley, Loddon, Mundham, Seething, Sisland, Thurton, Thwaite St. Mary, Topcroft, Woodton.

Parishes marked "(*)" had detached portions - for details and maps see the Detached portions section.

Mitford

Cranworth, East Dereham (all except hamlet of Dillington in Launditch Hundred), East Tuddenham, Garvestone, Hardingham, Hockering, Letton, Mattishall, Mattishall Burgh, North Tuddenham, Reymerston, Shipdham, Southburgh (Southbergh), Thuxton, Westfield, Whinbergh (Whinburgh), Wood Rising, Yaxham.

North Erpingham (see Erpingham, North)

North Greenhoe (see Greenhoe, North)

Shropham

Attleborough, Besthorpe, Brettenham, Bridgham, East Wretham, Eccles, Great Ellingham, Hargham, Hockham, Illington, Kilverstone, Larling, New Buckenham, Old Buckenham, Rockland All Saints(*), Rockland St. Andrew(*), Rockland St. Peter (small part inc. church - c.200 acres - rest in Wayland), Roudham, Shropham, Snetterton, West Wretham, Wilby.

Rockland St. Andrew had detached parts (from 6 inch OS map):-
No. 1 at TL998973 - SE of Pound Farm
No. 2 at TL995965 on The Street opposite White Hart
No. 3 at TL997961 - 2 fields N. of Church Farm
No. 4 at TL985950 - SW of Rocklands Farm, Sandy Lane
No. 5 at TL973947 - N of Sandy Lane
No. 6 at TL975946 - S of Sandy Lane
No. 7 at TL972945 - S of Sandy Lane

Rockland All Saints had a detached part at TL990966 to W of lane off The Street. This part and Nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 all added to Civil Parish of Rockland All Sts. and St. Andrew in 1885.

Further info can be found:

Bryant, Thomas Hugh: The churches of Norfolk: Hundred of Shropham
[Norwich: Norwich Mercury under the auspices of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1913]

Smithdon

This also contains one parish (Ingoldisthorpe) on its own on the south edge of the old Docking hundred.
The original parishes of this Hundred are marked (S). The others come from the inclusion of the Docking Hundred.
Barwick, Bircham Newton, Bircham Tofts, Brancaster, Choseley (ex. par), Docking, Fring, Great Bircham, Great Ringstead (S), Heacham (S), Holme-next-the-Sea (S), Hunstanton (S), Ingoldisthorpe (S), Sedgeford (S), Shernborne, Snettisham, Stanhoe (S), Thornham, Titchwell.

South Erpingham (see Erpingham, South)

South Greenhoe (see Greenhoe, South)

Taverham

Attlebridge, Beeston St. Andrew, Catton, Crostwick, Drayton, Felthorpe, Frettenham, Hainford, Hellesdon (part of, the hamlet of Hellesdon is in Norwich), Horsford, Horsham St. Faith, Horstead with Stanninghall, Newton St. Faith, Rackheath, Salhouse, Spixworth, Sprowston, Taverham, Wroxham.

Tunstead

Ashmanhaugh, Bacton, Barton Turf, Beeston St. Lawrence, Bradfield, Crostwight, Dilham, Edingthorpe, Felmingham, Honing, Horning, Hoveton St. John, Hoveton St. Peter, Irstead, Neatishead, North Walsham, Paston, Ridlington, Sco-Ruston (or South Ruston), Sloley, Smallburgh, Swafield, Tunstead, Westwick, Witton (near North Walsham), Worstead.

Further info can be found:

Rye, Walter: The monumental inscriptions in the hundred of Tunstead, in the county of Norfolk
[Norwich: Goose, 1891]

Walsham

Acle(*), Beighton(*), Fishley, Halvergate, Hemblington, Moulton St. Mary(*), Ranworth-with-Panxworth, Reedham, South Walsham St. Lawrence(*), South Walsham St. Mary, Tunstall, Upton, Wickhampton, Woodbastwick.

Parishes marked "(*)" had detached portions - for details and maps see the Detached portions section.

Wayland

Ashill, Breccles (Breckles), Carbrooke, Caston, Griston, Little Ellingham, Merton, Ovington, Rockland St. Peter (largest portion - c.800 acres - rest in Shropham), Saham Toney, Scoulton, Stow-Bedon, Thompson, Threxton, Tottington, Watton.

West Flegg (see Flegg, West)

End of Hundred descriptions

City and Boroughs

and their constituent parishes in the year 1834 :-

Norwich City and County of the City

All Saints, Earlham St. Mary, Eaton St. Andrew, Heigham, Hellesdon (hamlet only, rest in Taverham), Lakenham, St. Andrew, St. Augustine, St. Benedict, St. Clement, St. Edmund, St. Etheldred, St. George Colegate, St. George Tombland, St. Giles, St. Gregory, St. Helen, St. James (inc. hamlet of Pockthorpe), St. John Maddermarket, St. John (de) Sepulchre, St. John Timberhill, St. Julian, St. Lawrence, St. Margaret, St. Martin-at-Oak, St. Martin-at-Palace, St. Mary-at-Coslany, St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, St. Michael-at-Coslany (St. Miles), St. Michael-at-Plea, St. Michael-at-Thorn, St. Paul, St. Peter Hungate, St. Peter Mancroft, St. Peter-per-Mountergate (Parmentergate), St. Peter Southgate, St. Saviour, St. Simon & St. Jude, St. Stephen, St. Swithin, Thorpe hamlet,
and the following area - Liberty of the Town Close,
and the hamlets of Trowse Millgate, Carrow & Bracondale.

Borough of King's Lynn

King's Lynn All Saints (South Lynn), King's Lynn St. Margaret.

Note that the Borough by 1880 also included 284 acres of Gaywood and 144 acres of North Lynn.

Borough of Thetford

Thetford St. Cuthbert, Thetford St. Mary, Thetford St. Peter.

Note that for two of the Thetford parishes -

c. 50 acres of Thetford St. Peter lie in Norfolk.
c. 50 acres including Ford Place (formerly extra parochial) of Thetford St. Cuthbert lie in Norfolk.
These 2 parishes are sometimes described as being in (but not administrated as part of) Shropham Hundred
The other parts of these 2 parishes are also sometimes described as being in (but again not administrated as part of) the Suffolk hundred of Lackford.

Borough of Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth (inc. Southtown which was added in 1681 even though it was in Suffolk).

Note that the area covered by the Borough of Yarmouth changed over time so that by 1883 it also included Gorleston. The Suffolk Hundred of "Mutford and Lothingland" used to include Gorleston and Southtown for some administration purposes eg. poor law etc.

Parishes with detached portions

The following parishes have detached portions located in other Hundreds. For maps of these areas (and others described already) see the Parish Maps for each Hundred page and the All of Norfolk at Full Size Map on the Norfolk Hundreds Maps page

Parish	Letter on Map	Hundred (where Parish located)	Hundred(s) containing detached portion(s)
Acle (see Nowhere)	a	Walsham	East Flegg & Walsham [Det No.1 -TG4980008850-SE of Staregap(or Scaregap) Farm] [Det No.2 -TG4840007850] [Det No.3 -TG4522908054]
Beighton	b	Walsham	Walsham [Beighton Marshes-TG4675506193]
Burlingham St Andrew	c	Blofield	Walsham [TG4475908347]
Cantley	d	Blofield	Walsham [S. of Six mile House-TG4568909156]
Chedgrave	e	Loddon	Clavering [Det No.1 -Chedgrave Marshes-TG4380001500] [Det No.2 -Chedgrave Marshes-TG4490602063]
Freethorpe	f	Blofield	Walsham [Breydon North Flats-TG4890007300]
Langley	g	Loddon	Walsham [Langley Marshes-TG4637403931]
Loddon	h	Loddon	Clavering [N. of New Cut-TG4400000500]
Moulton St Mary	i	Walsham	Walsham [Berney Marshes-TG4668705640]
Postwick	j	Blofield	Walsham [By Black House-TG4727608958]
Raveningham	k	Clavering	Clavering [Det No.1 -TM4450099700-NW of St Olave's] [Det No.2 -TG4250000800]
Runham	l	East Flegg	East Flegg [TG5030008600]
Stockton	m	Clavering	Clavering [Det No.1 -W. of Seven Mile House-TG4530001500] [Det No.2 -NW. of Seven Mile House- TG4560001800] [Det No.3 -TG4570002350 (N. of No.2)] [Det No.4 -TG4620002500 (NE. of No.3)] [Det No.5 -TG4595003100 (N. of No.4)]
South Walsham St Lawrence	n	Walsham	Walsham [South Walsham Marshes-TG4650507958]
Toft Monks	o	Clavering	Walsham [Det No.1 -TG4470001200] Walsham [Det No.2 -TG4605002900]

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SOUTH GREENHOE HUNDRED

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GUILTCROSS HUNDRED

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HENSTEAD HUNDRED

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HUMBLEYARD HUNDRED

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LODDON HUNDRED

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SHROPHAM HUNDRED

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TAVERHAM HUNDRED

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WAYLAND HUNDRED.

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BLOFIELD HUNDRED

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CLACKCLOSE HUNDRED

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DEPWADE HUNDRED

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EARSHAM HUNDRED

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NORTH ERPINGHAM HUNDRED

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EYNESFORD HUNDRED

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FOREHOE HUNDRED

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FREEBRIDGE MARSHLAND.

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Hundreds

East Flegg (see Flegg, East)

Lackford (Suffolk)

North Erpingham (see Erpingham, North)

North Greenhoe (see Greenhoe, North)

South Erpingham (see Erpingham, South)

South Greenhoe (see Greenhoe, South)

West Flegg (see Flegg, West)

End of Hundred descriptions