Norfolk: Thorpe Market

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Thorpe Market is about 5 miles S.S.E. of Cromer.
See also Thorpe Abbotts, Thorpe Hamlet, Thorpe next Haddiscoe, Thorpe Parva and Thorpe St Andrew.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of North Erpingham (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Thorpe Market.
See Trunch
Cemetery of the Church of St Margaret: Surnames and dates.
Cemetery of the Church of St Margaret: Names on legible gravestones.

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Repps, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Margaret: Description and pictures.
Church of St Margaret: Description and picture.
Church of St Margaret: Description, services, location, pictures, etc.
Cotton, Simon; and Tricker, Roy: St Margaret's Church, Thorpe Market.
[Holt, Norfolk Churches Trust, 1980s]
Hunter, Geoffrey: St Margaret of Antioch, Thorpe Market: 1796-1996 Bicentenary.
[Thorpe Market, The Church, 1996]
Trunch Team Ministry: A brief guide to the eleven churches of the Trunch Team Ministry.
Antingham (St Mary, and St Margaret), Bradfield (St Giles), Gimingham (All Saints), Knapton (St Peter and St Paul), Mundesley (All Saints), Paston (St Margaret), Southrepps (St James), Swafield (St Nicholas), Thorpe Market (St Margaret of Antioch), Trimingham (St John) and Trunch (St Botolph).
[Trunch, Trunch Team Ministry, 1990s]

Church Records

Archdeacons' Transcripts: Baptisms 1726-1812, Marriages 1726-1811 and Burials 1726-1811.
[Parish Register Transcription Society, Dart Series, 2000?]
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
List of Clergy: 14th-18th centuries.

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

Thorpe Market: Events, description, history, pictures, reminiscences, etc.
Hunter, Geoffrey: Thorpe Market: A history of the village and its church.
[Thorpe Market, 1997]

Directories

Historical Geography

Thorpe Market is in North Erpingham hundred.

Maps

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

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World War 1.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Thorpe Market became part of the Erpingham Union, and the workhouses were at Gimingham and Sheringham. These were replaced by a new workhouse at West Beckham in 1850.

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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