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| GENUKI provides a description of Blofield Hundred from White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845. It includes 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 Blofield Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BLOFIELD, a village, a parish, a [registration] subdistrict, a [registration] district, and a hundred in Norfolk. The village stands near the Yarmouth railway and the river Yare, 1 mile NE of Brundall [railway] station, and 7 E of Norwich; and it has a post office under Norwich, and is a seat of petty sessions.....
- "The hundred comprises twenty-four parishes and part of another. Acres, 19,594. Population: 6,280. Houses: 1,265.
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Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Blofield | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Braydeston | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Brundall and Strumpshaw in 1884
| | Brundall | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Buckenham | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Strumpshaw in 1935
| | Burlingham St. Andrew | ancient parish, civil parish | merged into Lingwood and Burlingham in 1935
| | Burlingham St. Edmund | ancient parish, civil parish | merged into Lingwood and Burlingham in 1935
| | Burlingham St. Peter | ancient parish, civil parish | merged into Lingwood and Burlingham in 1935
| | Cantley | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Freethorpe | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Great Plumstead | ancient parish, civil parish | merged into Great and Little Plumstead in 1935
| | Hassingham | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Strumpshaw in 1935
| | Limpenhoe | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Cantley in 1935
| | Lingwood | ancient parish, civil parish | merged into Lingwood and Burlingham in 1935
| | Little Plumstead | ancient parish, civil parish | merged into Great and Little Plumstead in 1935
| | Postwick | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Southwood | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Cantley in 1935
| | Strumpshaw | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Thorpe St. Andrew | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Witton (near Blundall) | ancient parish, civil parish |
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