History and Description of the
County of Norfolk, England
NORFOLK, the most eastern division of England, is an extensive maritime county, comprising in 1841 some 412,664 inhabitants and about 1,300,000 acres of land divided into 33 Hundreds and about 740 parishes, including the City of Norwich which forms, with its precincts, a Town and County itself. Compared with the other counties of England it ranks fourth in territorial extent, and the eighth in population. It is celebrated for the diversity and high cultivation of its soil; for the abundance and excellence of its agricultural productions; for its crape, bombasin and other manufactures of silk and worsted; for its herring and mackerel fisheries; and for its numerous antiquities, market towns, villages and parishes; but in some cases two or three of the latter are united either ecclesiastically, or for the support of the poor.
Source: William White's "General History and Description of the County of Norfolk" written in 1841.
