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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Alby St. Ethelbert | |
Hundred | South Erpingham | |
Poor Law union | Aylsham |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Alby (St. Ethelbert))
Maps
Online maps of Alby with Thwaite are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.