Oby or Owby, with Ashby, Norfolk
Historical Description
Oby or Owby, with Ashby, forms a civil parish in Norfolk, on the river Bure, 4½ miles N of Acle, and 4 SW of Martham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. Post town, Yarmouth; money order and telegraph office, Martham. Acreage of Ashby and Oby, 1394; population, 90. The living is a rectory, united with the rectories of Ashby and Thurne, in the diocese of Norwich. The church has long since gone to decay, but its foundation and part of its floor were discovered in 1882. The church for the two rectories is in Thurne, but the parsonage is in Oby.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Hundred | West Flegg |
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Church Records
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Directories & Gazetteers
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Visitations Heraldic
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