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GENUKI provides a description of Wayland 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 parishes within the hundred.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Wayland Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "WAYLAND, a [registration] district and a hundred in the county of Norfolk. The district contains 25 parishes, and is divided into Watton and Attleborough [registration] sub-districts. The workhouse is in Rockland-All Saints.
- "The hundred contains only 16 parishes. Acres: 33,149. Population in 1851: 7,962; in 1861: 7,783. Houses: 1,701.
Wayland Hundred is to the west of the east-west axis of Norfolk and south of the north-south axis.
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Parishes
Parish | Description | Notes
| Ashill | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Breckles | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Carbrooke | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Caston | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Great Carbrooke | parish (ancient) | combined (redirected) to form Carbrooke in 1424
| Griston | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Little Carbrooke | parish (ancient) | combined (redirected) to form Carbrooke in 1424
| Little Ellingham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Merton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Ovington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Rockland St. Peter | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Saham Toney | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Scoulton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Stow Bedon | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Thompson | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Threxton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Tottington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Watton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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