Alby with Thwaite explained

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]

Toponymy

The name 'Alby' means 'Ali's farm/settlement'.[6]

The name 'Thwaite' means 'Clearing'.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 31 August 2015.
  2. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
  3. Web site: Newby . Pat . William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883 . Norfolk: Thwaite All Saints . Newby . 25 March 2023.
  4. Betjeman, John, ed. (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South. London: Collins; p. 320
  5. Web site: Fenton . Gertrude . 1871 National Census for Untited Kingdom . national Archives.
  6. Web site: Key to English Place-names.
  7. Web site: Key to English Place-names.