Norfolk Hundreds

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

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.

	+====================================================
	|                        |        | Annl. |         |
	|    PARISHES.           |   Pop. | 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 }         1155      4896     2892 |
	|  Magdalen       }                                 |
	| Pulham St. My Vir. @       924      5272     2958 |
	| Redenhall   }              237                    |
	| Harleston + }             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 |
	+===================================================+

[There is more information about individual parishes]

[ @ 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

For more information see :-

General description and layout of Hundreds.
Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.

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