Official Name: | Alby with Thwaite |
Country: | England |
Region: | East of England |
Civil Parish: | Alby with Thwaite |
Static Image Name: | Thwaite All Saints.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | All Saints’ Parish Church, Thwaite |
Static Image 2 Name: | Alby Church.png |
Static Image 2 Caption: | St. Ethelbert's, Alby |
Population: | 245 |
Population Ref: | (parish, 2011 census) |
Area Total Km2: | 5.81 |
Os Grid Reference: | TG196340 |
Coordinates: | 52.849°N 1.282°W |
Post Town: | NORWICH |
Postcode Area: | NR |
Postcode District: | NR11 |
Dial Code: | 01263 |
London Distance: | 132 miles |
Alby with Thwaite is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish straddles the A140 some 10 km south of Cromer and 30 km north of Norwich, including the settlements of Alby and Thwaite.
Alby with Thwaite has an area of 5.81 km2 and in the 2001 census had a population of 223 in 86 households, the population increasing to 245 at the 2011 Census.[1] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.[2]
The church at the hamlet of Thwaite All Saints,[3] is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. Other features of interest are the 1624 pulpit and the 1824 Sunday school room situated north of the chancel.[4] The novelist Gertrude Fenton lived at the White House in All Saints’ Thwaite with her husband Arthur in the 1870s.[5]
The name 'Alby' means 'Ali's farm/settlement'.[6]
The name 'Thwaite' means 'Clearing'.[7]