Norfolk: Thorpe Abbotts

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Thorpe Abbotts is about 5 miles E. of Diss.
The name is also found as Thorpe Abbott and Thorpe Abbots.
See also Thorpe Hamlet, Thorpe Market, Thorpe next Haddiscoe Thorpe Parva, and Thorpe St Andrew.

Cemeteries

Cemetery of the Church of All Saints: Names on legible gravestones.

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

The parish is in the deanery of Redenhall, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to the All Saints.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of All Saints: Description, history and pictures.
Church of All Saints: Description and pictures.

Church Records

Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

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

Directories

Historical Geography

Thorpe Abbotts is in Earsham hundred.

Maps

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

Military History

Thorpe Abbotts Airfield: History, description and pictures.
Thorpe Abbotts Airfield: USAAF 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum.
Thorpe Abbotts Airfield: USAAF 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum.
Bowman, Martin W.: Airfield Focus 62: Thorpe Abbotts.
[ISBN 1904514111, GMS Enterprises, 2003]
There are many web sites about Thorpe Abbotts airfield and the groups and aeroplanes there.: Please search via an internet search engine.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Thorpe Abbotts became part of the Depwade Union, and the workhouse was at Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market).

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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