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Name | Thorpe St. Andrew |
Alt names | Thorp | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 195 | | Torp | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 195 | | Thorpe St Andrew | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 195; Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) p 702 | | Thorpe St. Andrew | source: Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987) p 718 | | Thorpe Saint Andrew | source: Family History Library Catalog | | Thorpe-St. Andrew | source: Family History Library Catalog | | Thorpe-next-Norwich | source: Family History Library Catalog | | Thorpe-next-Norwich | source: hyphenated | | Thorpe Episcopi | source: alternate name | | Thorpe-St. Thomas | source: Family History Library Catalog | | Thorpe Green | source: settlement in parish |
Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.633°N 1.338°E |
Located in | Norfolk, England |
See also | Blofield Hundred, Norfolk, England | hundred in which it was located | | Blofield Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district 1894-1935 | | Blofield and Flegg Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district 1935-1974 | | Broadland District, Norfolk, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Thorpe St. Andrew is a small town and suburb of Norwich in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated about two miles east of the city centre, outside the city boundary in the District of Broadland. It constitutes a civil parish covering an area of 705 ha (1,740 acres) which had a population of 13,762 according to the 2001 UK census. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Broadland District Council.
Thorpe lies on the River Yare which is part of the Norfolk Broads network of navigable rivers. Thorpe Green is on the main Yarmouth Road and gives access to the river with the opposite bank being an island after the creation of the new cut which allowed vessels to make their way to and from the city of Norwich without the impediment of two low bridges carrying the railway to Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Cromer and Sheringham. Once the location of thriving boat yards, Thorpe Island now offers mooring for many live-aboard vessels.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Thorpe St. Andrew. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Blofield Hundred.
- 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.
Categories: Norfolk, England | Thorpe St. Andrew, Norfolk, England | Blofield Hundred, Norfolk, England | Blofield Rural, Norfolk, England | Blofield and Flegg Rural, Norfolk, England | Broadland District, Norfolk, England
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