Thorpe Morieux ( ) is a small village and

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, England. It is 10 miles south-east of

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and 10 miles north east of

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. Located in Babergh district, the parish contains the

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of Thorpe Green and Almshouses Green, as well as Great Hastings Wood (part of the Thorpe Morieux Woods

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), which is classified as

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. It was anciently in the

Cosford Hundred Cosford was a hundred (subdivision), hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . The hundred consisted of Hadleigh, Suffolk, Hadleigh, the only town of any size, and seventeen other parishes in western Suffolk. The area is undulating and agriculturally- ...

. There are 14 listed buildings in the parish, mostly grade II with the grade II* Thorpe Hall and the grade I parish church of St Mary the Virgin. The village is located on the

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History

The

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records the population of Thorpe Morieux in 1086 to be 35 households with lands listed under two owners

Roger the Poitevin Roger the Poitevin or Roger de Poitou (mid-1060s – before 1140) was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat possessing large holdings both in England and through his marriage in France during the early 12th century. He was the third son of Roger of Montg ...

and

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. In 1870–72,

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described the village as: : ''THORPE-MORIEUX, a parish, with a village, in Cosford district,

; 3¼ miles NNE of Lavenham r. station. Post town, Bildestone, under

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. Acres, 2,457. Real property, £3,570. Pop., 447. Houses, 98. The manor belongs to H. Sparrow, Esq. The living is a rectory in the

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. Value, £656.* Patron, The Rev. T. T. Harrison. The church is good.'' In 1887,

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also wrote an entry on Thorpe Morieux in the Gazetteer of the British Isles with a much shorter description: : ''Thorpe Morieux, par.and vil., Suffolk, 3 miles NE. of

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and 9 miles SE. of

, 2457 ac., pop. 416; P.O''

Notable residents

* Robert Coe (1589-1689), early English settler in

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, and magistrate. * Tom Francis (born 1999), actor * William Harrison (1837-1920),

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. * Peregrine Rhodes KCMG (1925-2005), diplomat. * Courtenay Warner 1st Baronet, CB (1857–1934), politician.

References

External links

Thorpe Morieux Parish Website
Suffolk Churches Villages in Suffolk Babergh District Civil parishes in Suffolk Cosford Hundred {{suffolk-geo-stub