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Shropham Hundred was located in the south of the county of Norfolk, England. It was quite a large hundred and was surrounded, starting on the north and working clockwise, by the hundreds of Wayland, Forehoe, Depwade, Guiltcross and Grimshoe. It had a short border with the Borough of Thetford in the southwest corner.
GENUKI provides a description of Shropham Hundred from White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845. It includes information about the locality and a table showing the populations of the individual parishes in 1841.
A map, also from GENUKI, illustrates the locations of the various parishes within the hundred.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Shropham Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "SHROPHAM, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Norfolk....The hundred contains 21 parishes. Acres: 47,585. Population: 8,906. Houses: 1,972.
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Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Attleborough | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Besthorpe | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Brettenham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Bridgham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | East Wretham | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged into Wretham in 1935
| | Eccles | parish (ancient), civil parish | Eccles became part of the parish Quidenham
| | Great Ellingham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Hargham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Hockham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Illington | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged into Wretham in 1935
| | Kilverstone | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Larling | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | New Buckenham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Old Buckenham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Rockland All Saints | parish (ancient), civil parish | until 1885
| | Rockland All Saints and St. Andrew | civil parish | 1885 onward
| | Rockland St. Andrew | parish (ancient), civil parish | until 1885
| | Roudham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Shropham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Snetterton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | West Wretham | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged into Wretham in 1935
| | Wilby | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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