Thorpe Hamlet is a
suburb
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of
Norwich
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, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English
county
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of
Norfolk
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. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of
Blofield
Blofield is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of the English county of Norfolk. The parish includes the village of Blofield and the hamlets of Blofield Heath and Blofield Corner.
Blofield is located five miles (8 km) ...
.
The population of the Thorpe Hamlet ward in Norwich was 10,557 at the 2011 Census.
The Church of St Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet was erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the
River Wensum
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.
Until 1852 it was part of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich.
Amenities
Thorpe Hamlet has a mid school, a first school, a water tower and a wood called Lion Wood.
History
Some
Lollards
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, including
Thomas Bilney, were martyred in the 'Lollards Pit' in Thorpe Wood, near Thorpe Hamlet, "where men are customablie burnt."
[.]
Notable people
*
Elizabeth Ayton Godwin (1817–1889), hymn writer, religious poet
References
* Philip's Street Atlas Norfolk (page 163)
* http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/t/thorpe_hamlet/
Areas of Norwich
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