Place:Smithdon Hundred, Norfolk, England

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NameSmithdon Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inNorfolk, England
GENUKI provides a description of Smithdon 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.

Smithdon Hundred was located in the north of Norfolk, England. It borders the North Sea on the north and The Wash on the west.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Smithdon Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"SMITHDON, a hundred in the NW of Norfolk; containing 20 parishes. Acres: 60,681. Population in 1851: 9,852; in 1861: 9,689. Houses, 2,080."
Image:Norfolk Hundreds 1830.png

Parishes

Parish Description Notes
Barwick parish (ancient), civil parish
Bircham Newton parish (ancient), civil parish merged into Bircham in 1935
Bircham Tofts parish (ancient), civil parish merged into Bircham in 1935
Brancaster parish (ancient), civil parish
Choseley extraparochial, civil parish 1858 onward
Docking parish (ancient), civil parish
Fring parish (ancient), civil parish
Great Bircham parish (ancient), civil parish merged into Bircham in 1935
Heacham parish (ancient), civil parish
Holme next the Sea parish (ancient), civil parish
Hunstanton parish (ancient), civil parish
Ingoldisthorpe parish (ancient), civil parish
Ringstead parish (ancient), civil parish 1771 onward
Ringstead Parva parish (ancient) until 1771 (redirected to Ringstead )
Sedgeford parish (ancient), civil parish
Shernborne parish (ancient), civil parish
Snettisham parish (ancient), civil parish
Stanhoe parish (ancient), civil parish
Thornham parish (ancient), civil parish
Titchwell parish (ancient), civil parish