Place:Wayland Hundred, Norfolk, England

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NameWayland Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inNorfolk, England
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.

Image:Norfolk Hundreds 1830.png

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