Thurton, Norfolk
Historical Description
Thurton, a parish in Norfolk, 2½ miles NW of Loddon, and 3½ SSW of Buckenham station on the G.E.R. It lias a post office under Norwich; money order office, Bergh Apton; telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage, 783; population, 219. The manor belongs to the Beauchamp family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. The church is an ancient structure of flint in the Early English style. A quantity of Roman coins was found in the parish in 1707.
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 | Thurton St. Ethelbert | |
Hundred | Loddon | |
Poor Law union | Loddon and Clavering |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Thurton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1908 | 1561-1908 | 1561-1882 | 1561-1905 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thurton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thurton (St. Ethelbert))
Maps
Online maps of Thurton 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.