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White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

GALLOW HUNDRED

Is a tract of rich soil, and highly diversified country, extending 15 miles in length from east to west, and varying from 8 to 5 miles in breadth; being bounded on the north by Brothercross, North-Greenhoe, and Holt Hundreds; on the east by Eynesford; on the south by Launditch; and on the west by Freebridge-Lynn and Smithdon Hundreds.

It is watered by the Wensum, and several brooks, which form the source of that river, flowing eastward through a fine vale, by East Rudham, Fakenham, Great Ryburgh, &c.; and from Little Snoring, Barsham, &c., another stream flows northward through the adjoining Hundred to the sea, near Stiffkey.

Henry I. gave Gallow and Brothercross to the Earl of Warren and Surrey, who then held Norwich Castle. Gallow is supposed to have its name from a hill near Dunton, where the Hundred Court was held.

It is in Docking and Briningham Police Divisions; and contains 31 parishes, of which 18 are in Burnham Deanery, and 13 in Toftrees Deanery; the former in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and the latter in that of Norwich. Petty Sessions are held at the Crown Inn, Fakenham, every alternate Saturday. Mr. John Overton is clerk to the magistrates.

The following enumeration of the 31 parishes shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rates in 1843, and their territorial extent.

PARISHES. Pop. Annl.
Value
£.
Acres.
Bagthorpe 78 680 750
Barmer 61 1,102 1,280
Barsham (East) 240 1,578 1,048
Barsham (North) 89 1,560 1,005
Barsham (West) 86 1,676 1,520
Broomsthorpe 10 434 430
Dunton & Doughton 147 1,800 1,549
* Fakenham 2,166 8,102 1,997
Fulmodeston-with- }
Croxton }
290
68
2,860 2,314
Heloughton 356 2,286 1,638
Hempton 447 912 370
Houghton (New) 303 1,036 1,120
Kettlestone 219 1,300 629
Pensthorpe 19 790 724
Pudding-Norton 25 990 755
Rainham (East) 124 2,554 1,607
Rainham (South) 124 1,240 1,036
Rainham (West) 380 2,148 1,270
Rudham (East) 994 4,338 3,779
Rudham (West) 490 2,940 2,438
Ryburgh Magna 521 2,360 1,488
Ryburgh Parva 176 1,268 873
Sculthorpe 591 3,404 2,049
Shereford 89 940 823
Snoring (Little) 293 1,876 1,518
Stibbard 453 2,160 1,421
Syderstone 504 2,408 2,308
Tatterford 59 1,338 960
Tattersett 160 2,440 1,757
Testerton 23 850 621
Toftrees 84 1,612 1,166



TOTAL + 9,669 61,282 42,480

[There is more information about individual parishes]

* Fakenham return includes 8 persons in Alethorpe, which is extra- parochial, and has 237 acres, assessed at £260 per annum.

+ Gallow Hundred had 9,378 souls, in 1831. It was assessed to the Property Tax at £54,190 in 1815; and at £67,868 in 1842.

UNIONS:- All the above parishes are in WALSINGHAM UNION, except Bagthorpe, Barmer, Broomsthorpe, New Houghton, East and West Rudham, and Syderstone, which are in Docking Union.(see page 633. [this is in Smithdon Hundred description])


Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 646 to 647) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Barsham (East)/East Barsham, Barsham (North)/North Barsham, Barsham (West)/West Barsham, Dunton & Doughton/Dunton cum Doughton, Fulmodeston-with-Croxton/Fulmodeston, Heloughton/Helhoughton, Houghton (New)/Houghton or New Houghton, Rainham (East)/East Raynham or Raynham East, Rainham (South)/South Raynham or Raynham South, Rainham (West)/West Raynham or Raynham West, Rudham (East)/East Rudham, Rudham (West)/West Rudham, Ryburgh Magna/Great Ryburgh, Ryburgh Parva/Little Ryburgh, Snoring (Little)/Little Snoring


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September 2015