Morningthorpe
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Morningthorpe (sometimes Morning Thorpe) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Morningthorpe and Fritton in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is situated some Script error: No such module "convert". south of the city of Norwich. The parish includes the villages of Morningthorpe and Fritton. The two villages are 1 km apart (about half a mile)[1]
The village's name origin is uncertain perhaps, 'outlying farm/settlement of the pool dwellers', 'outlying farm/settlement of the boundary dwellers' or 'outlying farm/settlement of Maera's people'.
The civil parish has an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and in the 2001 census had a population of 253 in 94 households the population increasing to 267 at the 2011 Census.[1]
The churches of Morningthorpe St John the Baptist and Fritton St Catherine are two of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.
The village was struck by an F1/T2 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.[2]
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).
Civil parish
On 1 April 1935, the parish of Fritton was merged with Morning Thorpe.[3] The new parish was renamed from "Morning Thorpe" to "Morningthorpe and Fritton" on 1 May 2012.[4] In 1931 the parish of Morning Thorpe (prior to the merge) had a population of 110.[5]
Notable people
The ornithologist Howard Irby was born here in 1833 at Boyland Hall.[6] The hall was demolished in 1947.[7]
Paulina Irby, the campaigner for Bosnian Serb refugees was born here in 1831.
British racing driver St. John Horsfall was born here in 1910.[8]
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Tommy Hicks – later the entertainer Tommy Steele, and his family, were evacuated here from London during World War Two.
References
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- ↑ 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
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- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich. Template:ISBN.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Morningthorpe parish information South Norfolk Council
- http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Morning%20Thorpe
External links
- Template:OS coord for Morningthorpe village
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- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Morningthorpe.
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Fritton.
- St John the Baptist's on the European Round Tower Churches Website
- St Catherine's on the European Round Tower Churches Website