Aldeby is a village and

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, England. It is bounded to the south by the

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, on the other side of which is

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. The village is about five miles (8 km) by road from

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History

The name Aldeby derives from the Old Norse word meaning "old fortification". The civil parish has an area of 12.61 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 437 in 175 household, falling to a population of 422 in 180 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the area of the

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Aldeby is well known for its fishing pits and also historically for the apple factory (Waveney Apple Growers Ltd) based on Common Road that closed in the late 1990s. It also once had its own

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. Aldeby is mentioned in the

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and was part of

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. Aldeby Priory was located here. Between 1959 and 1968, the village was the location of a

Royal Observer Corps The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated in the United Kingdom between 29 October 1925 and 31 Decembe ...

monitoring bunker, to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. It remains mostly intact.

War memorial

St Mary the Virgin church holds the village's war memorials. The memorial to the fallen of the

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holds 23 names which are: * Company Sergeant-Major Walter R. Snowling (1894–1916), 2nd Battalion,

Suffolk Regiment The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment Line infantry, of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. It saw service for three centuries, participating in many wars and conflicts, including the World War I, First and ...

* Lance-Corporal Frederick H. B. Alp (d.1916), 22nd Battalion,

Royal Fusiliers The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. It was known as the 7th Regiment of Foot until the Childers Reforms of 1881. The regiment served in many war ...

* Lance-Corporal Benjamin Wright (d.1917), 2nd Battalion,

Northamptonshire Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1960. In 1960, it was amalgamated with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's O ...

* Lance-Corporal Fred S. Wright (d.1916), 2nd Battalion,

Royal Berkshire Regiment The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was created in 1881, as the Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), by ...

* Shoeing Smith James Eggett (1873–1918), 87th Battery,

Royal Field Artillery The Royal Field Artillery (RFA) of the British Army provided close artillery support for the infantry. It was created as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1899, serving alongside the other two arms of the regiment, the ...

* Gunner Alfred A. Manthorpe (d.1918), 252nd Siege Battery,

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* Private Harold Howes (1894–1918), 33rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers * Private George Alger (d.1917), 7th Battalion,

East Surrey Regiment The East Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot, the 70th ( ...

* Private James H. Rouse (1897–1917), 11th Battalion,

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* Private Arthur E. Self (1895–1916), 1st Battalion,

Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

* Joseph Soanes, 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Bertie W. Brown (d.1917), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Fred H. Slater (d.1917), 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Richard W. Slater (1893–1919), 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Frederick Simpson (d.1915), 10th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private William Thrower (d.1918), 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment * Private Herbert G. Cooper (1896–1915), 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Private Allard J. Saker (1896–1915), 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Private Henry Newson (d.1919), 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Seaman Leonard Alp (1896–1915), ''HMS Clan MacNaughton'' * Chief Cook Harry C. Orpin (d.1915), ''HMS Pembroke'' * Deck-Hand Arthur Soanes (1879–1917), ''HM

Armed trawler Ethel & Millie The Armed trawler ''Ethel & Millie'' was a British auxiliary warship which served during World War I. She was built in 1908 as the fishing smack ''Ethel & Millie'', operating from Lowestoft and registered as LT 200. In early 1917 she was armed ...

'' * Engineman Fred W. Leathers (1891–1916), ''HM Drifter Buckler'' And the following six names for the

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: * Private Ernest J. Tye (1924–1945), 2nd Battalion,

Monmouthshire Regiment The Monmouthshire Regiment was a Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial infantry regiment of the British Army. Originating in units of Volunteer Force (Great Britain), rifle volunteers formed in Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire in 1859, ...

* Pilot Officer Edward M. Gunther (1920–1940),

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* Sergeant Jack A. G. Reynolds (1923–1943),

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* Sergeant-Air Gunner Edward A. J. Farrow (1926–1945),

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* Able Seaman James W. Soanes (1914–1929), ''

HMS Tigris (N63) HMS ''Tigris'' was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard and launched in October 1939. Career ''Tigris'' had a relatively active career, serving in the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Home waters ''Ti ...

'' * Second-Hand Sidney C. Burroughs (1914–1942), ''HMS Ullswater''

References

* Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001.
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
'. Retrieved 2 December 2005. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Aldeby

External links

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Parish Council
* {{authority control Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk