Place:Humbleyard Hundred, Norfolk, England

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NameHumbleyard Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inNorfolk, England

GENUKI provides a description of Humbleyard 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.

Humbleyard Hundred is located to the southwest and south of Norwich and is also bordered by Henstead, Depwade and Forehoe Hundreds.

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

"HUMBLEYARD, a [registration] sub-district and a hundred in Norfolk. The sub-district is in Henstead district, and contains Hethersett parish and eighteen other parishes. Acres: 24,027. Population: 5,620. Houses: 1,156. The hundred is conterminate with the sub-district.

Parishes

Parish Description Notes
Bracon Ash parish (ancient), civil parish
Canteloff parish (ancient) merged into Hethersett
Colney parish (ancient), civil parish
Cringleford parish (ancient), civil parish
Dunston parish (ancient), civil parish
East Carleton parish (ancient), civil parish
Flordon parish (ancient), civil parish
Great Melton parish (ancient), civil parish 1728 onward (also known as Melton Magna)
Great Wreningham parish (ancient) merged into Wreningham
Hethel parish (ancient), civil parish
Hethersett parish (ancient), civil parish
Intwood parish (ancient), civil parish
Keningham parish (ancient) merged into Wreningham
Keswick parish (ancient), civil parish
Ketteringham parish (ancient), civil parish
Little Melton parish (ancient), civil parish
Little Wreningham parish (ancient) merged into Wreningham
Markshall parish (ancient), civil parish
Mulbarton parish (ancient), civil parish
Newton Flotman parish (ancient), civil parish
Swainsthorpe parish (ancient), civil parish
Swardeston parish (ancient), civil parish
Wreningham parish (ancient), civil parish