Place:Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk, England

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Thorpe Abbotts is a village within the present civil parish of Brockdish (where the population is listed) in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 6.5 miles (10.5 km) east of Diss, 20.8 miles (33.5 km) south southwest of Norwich and 106 miles (171 km) northeast of London. The village lies 0.4 miles (0.64 km) north of the A143 Diss to Great Yarmouth road. The nearest railway station is at Diss for the Great Eastern Main Line which runs between Norwich and Liverpool Street station, London. The village, as part of the larger parish in the 2001 census, had a population of 605. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of South Norfolk.

History

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Thorpe Abbots.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Thorpe Abbots from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"THORPE-ABBOTS, a parish in Depwade [registration] district, Norfolk; 3¾ miles E of Diss [railway] station. Post town: Scole. Acres: 1,122. Real property: £1,819. Population: 256. Houses: 55. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £305. Patron: J. P. Reade, Esq. The church is good. Charities, £9."

Thorpe Abbots became part of Brockdish parish in 1935. Previously it had been a separate civil parish and part of Depwade Rural District since 1894.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Thorpe Abbots. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Earsham Hundred may be useful.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.