Thurgarton, Norfolk

This article is about the Norfolk village; for the Nottinghamshire village, see Thurgarton.
Thurgarton

All Saints Church, Thurgarton
Thurgarton
 Thurgarton shown within Norfolk
Civil parishAldborough
DistrictNorth Norfolk
Shire countyNorfolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
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Coordinates: 52°52′34″N 1°14′24″E / 52.876°N 1.240°E / 52.876; 1.240

Thurgarton[1] is a village in the North Norfolk district of the English county of Norfolk. It lies 6½ miles north of Aylsham and 5½ miles south-west of Cromer, and was in the Erpingham Hundred. It forms part of the civil parish of Aldborough.

The church of All Saints, has a thatched roof but no tower - the tower having collapsed in the 1880s. It is closed to the public but in a good state of repair.

Thurgarton House (sometimes called Thurgarton Old Hall) is the seat of the Spurrell family, who have lived at Thurgarton for almost 500 years; it was rebuilt in conservative style in 1733.[2] Formerly Thurgarton had a windmill, reached from Church Lane.[3]

In 1969, poet George Barker, who lived at nearby Itteringham, published a poem called At Thurgarton Church.

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