Place:Clackclose Hundred, Norfolk, England

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NameClackclose Hundred
TypeHundred
Coordinates52.618°N 0.459°E
Located inNorfolk, England
GENUKI provides a description of Clackclose 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 Clackclose Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CLACKCLOSE, a Hundred in Norfolk. It lies around Downham and Swaffham; marches, at the SW end, with Cambridgeshire; extends thence 24½ miles to the ENE; and contains thirty parishes and parts of two others. Acres, 98,100. Population in 1851: 22,269; in 1861: 21,420. Houses: 4,600.

The hundred court of Clackclose hundred was held at Clackclose Hill on Stradsett common. (Source: Wikipedia)

Image:Norfolk Hundreds 1830.png


Parishes

Parish Description Notes
Barton Bendish ancient parish, civil parish
Barton Bendish All Saints ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Barton Bendish, redirected there
Barton Bendish St. Andrew ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Barton Bendish, redirected there
Barton Bendish St. Mary ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Barton Bendish, redirected there
Beechamwell ancient parish, civil parish
Beachamwell All Saints with Shingham ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Beechamwell, redirected there
Beachamwell St. Mary with St. John ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Beechamwell, redirected there
Beechamwell All Saints ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Beechamwell, redirected there
Beechamwell St. John ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Beechamwell, redirected there
Beechamwell St. Mary ancient parish an ecclesiastical parish within Beechamwell, redirected there
Bexwell ancient parish, civil parish absorbed into Ryston in 1935
Boughton ancient parish, civil parish
Crimplesham ancient parish, civil parish
Denver ancient parish, civil parish
Downham Market ancient parish, civil parish
Fincham ancient parish, civil parish existed from 1800 onward
Fordham ancient parish, civil parish
Hilgay ancient parish, civil parish
Marham ancient parish, civil parish
Outwell ancient parish, civil parish
Redmere extraparochial, civil parish until 1895, absorbed into Hockwold cum Wilton parish
Runcton Holme ancient parish, civil parish
Ryston ancient parish, civil parish
Ryston with Roxham ancient parish, civil parish absorbed into Ryston in 1935
Shingham ancient parish, civil parish
Shouldham ancient parish, civil parish
Shouldham Thorpe ancient parish, civil parish
Southery ancient parish, civil parish
South Runcton ancient parish, civil parish merged with Runcton Holme in 1935, redirected there
Stoke Ferry ancient parish, civil parish
Stow Bardolph ancient parish, civil parish
Stradsett ancient parish, civil parish
Tottenhill ancient parish, civil parish
Upwell ancient parish, civil parish also in Cambridgeshire until 1889
Wallington cum Thorpland ancient parish, civil parish merged with Runcton Holme in 1935, redirected there
Watlington ancient parish, civil parish
Welney chapelry, civil parish also in Cambridgeshire until 1889
Wereham ancient parish, civil parish
West Dereham ancient parish, civil parish
Wimbotsham ancient parish, civil parish
Wormegay ancient parish, civil parish
Wretton ancient parish, civil parish