Norfolk Hundreds

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

[There is more information about individual parishes]

* 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

For more information see :-

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

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