Norfolk: Saxlingham Thorpe

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Saxlingham Thorpe is about 7 miles S. of Norwich.
See also Saxlingham Nethergate and Saxlingham.

Cemeteries

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Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brooke, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary. It was in ruins before 1740.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Mary: Description, history and pictures of the ruins.
Heywood, Stephen and Ayton, John: Three Ruined Churches: St Margaret, Bayfield; St Mary Magdalen, Saxlingham Thorpe; and All Saints, Oxwick.
[Norwich, Norfolk Archaeological and Historical Research Group, 1995]

Church Records

Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society: The Parish Registers of Norfolk: Saxlingham Thorpe Particular Baptist: Births and Registrations, 1793-1837.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society, 1989]

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Saxlingham Thorpe was in Henstead Registration District.

Description and Travel

Saxlingham Thorpe Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Saxlingham Thorpe Tower Mill: Description and history.

Gazetteers and Directories

Saxlingham Thorpe is in Henstead hundred.

History

Muir, Mary: A good place to call home: Discovering the history of Saxlingham Thorpe and Saxlingham Nethergate.
[Norwich, 2000]

Land and Property

Kelly, Geoffrey Ian: Daines Farm, Cobie's Lane, Saxlingham Thorpe: A history based upon documentary sources.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 1998]
Kelly, Geoffrey Ian: Foxhole Farm, Saxlingham Thorpe: A history based upon documentary sources.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 1999]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Henstead Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Saxlingham Thorpe became part of the Henstead Union, and the workhouse was at Swainsthorpe.

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