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Alby with Thwaite, Norfolk

Historical Description

Alby or Aldby, with Thwaite, a parish in Norfolk, near the river Bure, 4½ miles NNE of Aylsham, and 4 NE from Gunton station on the G.E.R. Post town, Hanworth (under Norwich), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1437; population, 375. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £132 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Orford. The church is a building of cut flint and stone in the Early English style. Alby was united for civil purposes with the parish of Thwaite (All Saints') in 1884.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishAlby St. Ethelbert 
HundredSouth Erpingham 
Poor Law unionAylsham 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The register of St. Ethelbert dates from the year 1558.

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.


Churches

Church of England

St. Ethelbert (parish church)

The church of St. Ethelbert is an edifice of cut flint and stone in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing a clock and one bell: the church was repaired and partly re-seated in 1889, and now affords 160 sittings.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Alby with Thwaite from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Alby with Thwaite are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictNorth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR11
Post TownNorwich

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