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.

	+===================================================+
	|                        |        |  Annl. |        |
	|    PARISHES.           |   Pop. | 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 +          520 }                  |
	| * Poringland Ltl +          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 |
	+===================================================+

[There is more information about individual parishes]

+ 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].

For more information see :-

General description and layout of Hundreds.
Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.
See Deaneries page to check for ecclesiatical jurisdictions.

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