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| GENUKI provides a description of Diss 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 Diss Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "DISS, a town, a parish, a [registration] sub-district, and a hundred, in Norfolk. The town stands on the river Waveney, at the boundary with Suffolk, ½ a mile W of the Eastern Union railway, and 19½ SSW of Norwich. ...The hundred contains 16 parishes. Acres: 25,000. Population: 9,851. Houses: 2,129."
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Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Bressingham | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Burston | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Dickleburgh | ancient parish, civil parish | became part of Dickleburgh and Rushall in 1935
| | Diss | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Fersfield | civil parish | absorbed into Bressingham in 1935
| | Frenze | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Scole at date unknown
| | Gissing | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Roydon (near Diss) | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Scole | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Shelfanger | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Shimpling | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Burston in 1935
| | Thelveton | ancient parish, civil parish | absorbed into Scole in 1935
| | Thorpe Parva | ancient parish | absorbed into Scole before 1458
| | Tivetshall St. Margaret | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Tivetshall St. Mary | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Winfarthing | ancient parish, civil parish |
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