Norfolk Hundreds

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

HUMBLEYARD 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 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.

	+=================================================+
	|                      |        | Annl.  |        |
	|    PARISHES.         |   Pop. | 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-  }           24       678      528 |
	|  Heath        }                                 |
	| 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.

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

© Mike Bristow
April 2006