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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."
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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 |
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