Thorpe Hamlet

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Rosary Cemetery, Norwich opened by the Rev Thomas Drummond in July 1821 in a former market garden in Thorpe Hamlet Rosary Cemetery 20201007 134238 (50461218582).jpg
Rosary Cemetery, Norwich opened by the Rev Thomas Drummond in July 1821 in a former market garden in Thorpe Hamlet

Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.

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The population of the Thorpe Hamlet ward in Norwich was 10,557 at the 2011 Census. [1]

The Church of St Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet was erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the River Wensum.

Until 1852 it was part of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. [2] [3]

Amenities

Thorpe Hamlet has a mid school, a first school, a water tower and a wood called Lion Wood.

History

Some Lollards, including Thomas Bilney, were martyred in the 'Lollards Pit' in Thorpe Wood, near Thorpe Hamlet, "where men are customablie burnt." [4]

Notable people

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References

  1. ↑ "Norwich ward population 2011" . Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Goreham, G. "Thorpe Hamlet". G. Goreham 1972. Retrieved 7 October 2014. The church of St. Matthew, erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the river Wensum.
  3. ↑ Pat, (Kelly's - originally) Newby. "Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1912". Genuki. Kelly's. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Rackham, Oliver (1976). Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. JM Dent & Sons. pp. 137–38. ISBN   0-460-04183-5..

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