It is about 13 miles in length, along the river, from the vicinity of Scole Inn to Bungay, on the Suffolk side of the valley, and averages from 3 to 5 miles in breadth. It forms, with Diss Hundred, the Deanery of Redenhall , in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and is all comprised in the paramount jurisdiction of the Liberty of the Duke of Norfolk , which has two coroners, and contains above a hundred other parishes in this county. Petty Sessions are held at Harleston every alternate Friday.
Hazard is the magistrates' clerk.
Pulham St. My Vir. Mendham is mostly in Suffolk. Harleston is a chapelry, and Wortwell a township, both in Redenhall parish. Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.