Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TUNSTEAD

TUNSTEAD, a parish, a district, and a hundred, in Norfolk. The parish lies near the North Walsham railway, 3 miles NE of Coltishall. Post town, Coltishall, under Norwich-Acres, 2,291. Real property, £4,684. Pop., 405. Houses, 95. The property is divided among three. The living is a vicarage, united with South Ruston, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £286.* Patron, Mrs. T. Mack. The church was recently restored.—The district contains 42 parishes, and is divided into 4 sub-districts. Acres, 62,607. Poor rates in 1863, £8,113. Pop. in 1851, 15,614; in 1861, 14,516. Houses, 3,344. Marriages in 1863, 89; births, 474,-of which 45 were illegitimate; deaths, 266,-of which 71 were at ages under 5 years, and 12 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,044; births, 4,672; deaths, 3,192. The places of worship, in 1851, were 42 of the Church of England, with 8,248 sittings; 1 of Independents, with 210 s.; 7 of Baptists, with 1,873 s.; 8 of Wesleyans, with 1,025 s.; 11 of Primitive Methodists, with 1,312 s.; and 1 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 100 attendants. The schools were 21 public day-schools, with 1,436 scholars; 20 private day-schools, with 387 s.; 35 Sunday schools, with 1,917 s.; and 3 evening schools for adults, with 16 s. The workhouse is in Smallburgh.-The hundred contains 27 parishes. Acres, 36,954. Pop. in 1851, 11,127; in 1861, 10,425. Houses, 2,426.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, a district, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Tunstead CP/AP       Tunstead Hundred       Smallburgh RegD/Inc/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Tunstead

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