Registration Districts of Norfolk in 1836
White's Description of the Poor Law Unions and Registration Districts
Aylsham 46 parishes comprising 35 in South Erpingham Hundred, the exceptions being Baconsthorpe and West Beckham which are Erpingham Hundred and Booton which is in St Faiths plus 11 parishes in Eynesford Hundred.
Blofield 32 parishes comprising all 19 parishes in Blofield Hundred and all in 13 Walsham Hundred.
Depwade 45 parishes comprising all the 21 parishes in Depwade Hundred plus all 15 parishes in Earsham Hundred (Wortwell and Harleston are in Redenhall parish). Hendham is mostly in Suffolk. Also 11 of the 16 parishes in Diss Hundred.
Docking 36 parishes comprising all the 18 parishes in Smithdon Hundred, all 9 parishes in Brothercross Hundred plus Anmer and Dersingham in Freebridge Lynn and 7 in Gallow Hundred.
Downham 34 parishes comprising 29 in Clackclose Hundred, the exceptions being Beechamwell and Shingham which are in Swaffham Hundred and parts of Outwell and Upwell which are in Wisbech.
Erpingham 51 parishes comprising all 32 parishes in North Erpingham Hundred, 16 parishes in Holt Hundred together with North Walsham in Tunstead Hundred and Baconsthorpe and West Beckham in South Erpingham.
Faiths St 30 parishes comprising all 18 parishes in Taverham Hundred plus St Mary's in the Marsh Norwich, Honingham in Forehoe Hundred, Booton in South Erpingham and 9 parishes in Eynesford Hundred.
Flegg 20 parishes comprising all the parishes in East and West Flegg Hundreds.
Forehoe 23 parishes comprising the whole of Forehoe Hundred.
Freebridge Lynn 32 parishes comprising the whole of Freebridge Lynn Hundred.
Guiltcross 22 parishes comprising all 12 parishes in Guiltcross Hundred plus Bridgham, Old and New Buckenham, Eccles and Wilby in Shropham Hundred and Bressingham, Fersfield, Roydon, Shelfhanger and Windfarthing in Diss Hundred.
Henstead 37 parishes comprising all 19 in Humbleyard Hundred together with 18 in Henstead, the exception from this latter place being Yelverton which is in Loddon RD.
Hoxne 1 part parish only, the rest being in Hoxne Registration District, Suffolk.
Kings Lynn 4 parishes comprising St Margarets with St Nicholas and All Saints plus the small parishes of North and West Lynn on the opposite side of the river in Freebridge Marshland Hundred. All Saints also called South Lynn.
Loddon & Clavering 42 parishes comprising all 21 parishes in Loddon Hundred with 20 in Clavering and Yelverton in Henstead Hundred.
Mitford & Launditch 60 parishes comprising 18 in Mitford Hundred being all of that Hundred together with all 33 parishes in Launditch Hundred and 10 in Eynesford namely Bawdeswell, Billingford, Bintree, Bylaugh, Elsing, Foxley, Guist, Lyng, Sparham and Twyford.
Norwich 43 parishes.
Swaffham 33 parishes comprising all 24 in South Greenhoe Hundred plus Beechamwell and Shingham in Clackclose and Ashill, Saham Toney and Thexton in Wayland Hundred together with Buckenham Tofts, Ickburgh, Colveston and Stanford - Grimshoe Hundred.
Thetford 34 parishes (14 of which are in Suffolk) comprising the three parishes of Thetford, St Peters, St Cuthberts and St Marys with 12 in Grimshoe Hundred plus Snarehill which is extra-parochial except Great Snarehill which is rated as part of Rushford parish, also in Thetford Hundred as are Brettenham, Kilverstone, East and West Wretham in Shropham Hundred. The 14 parishes in Suffolk are Santon-Downham, Brandon, Barnham, Fakenham Magna, Euston, Honnington, Sapiston, Coney Weston, Barningham, Weston Market, Hepworth, Thelnetham, Hopton, Kettishall all in Blackbourn and Lackford Hundreds, Suffolk.
Tunstead & Happing 41 parishes comprising all 25 in Tunstead Hundred, the exception being Walsham North which is in Erpingham and all 16 parishes in Happing Hundred.
Walsingham 50 parishes comprising all 16 in North Greenhoe Hundred, 24 in Gallow Hundred and 10 in Holt Hundred.
Wayland 25 parishes comprising 13 in Wayland Hundred, 12 in Shropham Hundred.
Wisbech 22 parishes comprising 11 in Freebridge Marshland Hundred and 7 in Cambridgeshire:- Wisbech St Mary and St Peter, Newton, Leverington, Tydd St Giles, Elm and Parsons Drove, also Outwell and Upwell being partly in the Isle of Ely, Cambs and partly in Clackhouse Hundred, Norfolk.
Yarmouth 1 parish called Great Yarmouth to distinguish it from Little Yarmouth or South Yarmouth on the opposite site of the river in Suffolk. St Georges 1714 and St Peters 1833 were chapels of ease to St Nicholas, the main Parish Church. (Gorleston parish is in Mutford & Lothingland RD, Suffolk.)
Map of Norfolk Registation Districts
Reproduced with permission of the author, Donovan J. Murrells, from his book:
"Registration Districts of Norfolk in 1836, with maps and lists of parishes"
[ISBN 1-898134-00-6, 1993]