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GENUKI provides a description of Launditch 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 locations of the various parishes within the hundred.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Launditch Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "LAUNDITCH, a hundred in Norfolk; nearly in the centre of the county; bounded by the hundreds of Gallow, Eynsford, Mitford, South Greenhoe, and Freebridge Lynn; and containing the two Dunham parishes, thirty-two other parishes, and part of another. Acres: 56,978. Population in 1851: 13,561; in 1861: 13,177. Houses: 2,804.
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Parishes
Parish | Description | Notes
| Beeston | parish (ancient) | part of Beeston with Bittering since the 19th century
| Beeston with Bittering | civil parish |
| Beetley | parish (ancient), civil parish | included Great Bittering from 1774 (probably)
| Brisley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Colkirk | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| East Bilney | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| East Dereham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| East Lexham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Gateley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Godwick | parish (ancient), deserted settlement | until 1630, located in Tittleshall parish
| Great Dunham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Great Fransham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Gressenhall | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Hoe | chapelry, hamlet, civil parish |
| Horningtoft | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Kempston | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Litcham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Little Bittering | parish (ancient) | part of Beeston with Bittering since the 19th century (redirected)
| Little Dunham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Little Fransham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Longham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Mileham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Nelonde | parish (ancient) | ancient parish ceased in 1460 (redirected to Wreningham)
| North Elmham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Oxwick | parish (ancient) | redirected to Oxwick and Pattesley
| Oxwick and Pattesley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Pattesley | parish (ancient) | redirected to Oxwick and Pattesley
| Rougham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Scarning | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Stanfield | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Swanton Morley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Tittleshall | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Weasenham All Saints | chapelry, civil parish |
| Weasenham St. Peter | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Wellingham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Wendling | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| West Lexham | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Whissonsett | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Worthing | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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