Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Rosary_Cemetery_20201007_134238_%2850461218582%29.jpg/220px-Rosary_Cemetery_20201007_134238_%2850461218582%29.jpg)
The population of the Thorpe Hamlet ward in Norwich was 10,557 at the 2011 Census.[1]
The Church of St Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet was erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the River Wensum.
Until 1852 it was part of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich.[2][3]
Amenities
editThorpe Hamlet has a mid school, a first school, a water tower and a wood called Lion Wood.
History
editSome Lollards, including Thomas Bilney, were martyred in the 'Lollards Pit' in Thorpe Wood, near Thorpe Hamlet, "where men are customablie burnt."[4]
Notable people
edit- Elizabeth Ayton Godwin (1817–1889), hymn writer, religious poet
References
edit- ^ "Norwich ward population 2011". Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ Goreham, G. "Thorpe Hamlet". G. Goreham 1972. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
The church of St. Matthew, erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the river Wensum.
- ^ Pat, (Kelly's - originally) Newby. "Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1912". Genuki. Kelly's. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ Rackham, Oliver (1976). Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. JM Dent & Sons. pp. 137–38. ISBN 0-460-04183-5..
- Philip's Street Atlas Norfolk (page 163)
- http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/t/thorpe_hamlet/
52°37′48″N 1°19′16″E / 52.63°N 1.321°E