Morningthorpe

Morningthorpe

St John the Baptist, Morningthorpe
Morningthorpe
 Morningthorpe shown within Norfolk
Area  7.74 km2 (2.99 sq mi)
Population 267 
    density  34/km2 (88/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTM 237 946
Civil parishMorningthorpe and Fritton
DistrictSouth Norfolk
Shire countyNorfolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town NORWICH
Postcode district NR15
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
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Coordinates: 52°30′14″N 1°17′45″E / 52.50389°N 1.2957°E / 52.50389; 1.2957

Morningthorpe St John the Baptist
Fritton St Catherine

Morningthorpe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the city of Norwich. Besides the village of Morningthorpe itself, the parish also includes the village of Fritton. The two villages are 1 km apart.

The civil parish has an area of 7.74 square kilometres (2.99 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 253 in 94 households the population increasing to 267 at the 2011 Census.[1] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.

The churches of Morningthorpe St John the Baptist and Fritton St Catherine are two of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.

Morningthorpe round tower

Morningthorpe has a round tower rather larger than that at neighbouring Long Stratton: the tower appears to bulge out about halfway up, which, according to the article in Round Tower magazine September 2004, may be evidence of an octagonal tower built inside a round one. The article has photographs of repair work done to the tower in 1988 - one shows a corner of an "octagon" inner tower core, not bonded to the outside, while another suggests a bonded, and rounded, core. There are narrow openings in the tower with monolithic heads in worn pale stone, the openings filled with old-looking wooden boards pierced with vertical rows of round holes. Taylor & Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture seek to assign this tower to the later Saxon period (or earlier Norman).

Notable people

The ornithologist Howard Irby was born here in 1833 at Boyland Hall.[2] The hall was demolished in 1947.[3]

Paulina Irby, the Bosnian campaigner was born here in 1831.

Joseph Dickerson the author was born here in 1943.

Tommy Hicks - later Tommy Steele, and his family, were evacuated here from London during World War 2.

References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  2. H. M. Vibart, ‘Irby, Leonard Howard Loyd (1836–1905)’, rev. Alex May, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 27 Feb 2013
  3. Boyland Hall

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