Toft Monks is a village and
parish in
Norfolk, England. It is located on the border of Norfolk and
Suffolk
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about eleven miles southwest of
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A pop ...
and four miles north of
Beccles.
In 2001, the parish is recorded as accommodating 324 people in 131
households over 687
hectares, increasing to 348 at the 2011 Census.
The local
church in the village is dedicated to
St. Margaret and was originally constructed in the 13th century.
Toft Monks House is a Grade II listed Regency house built for local merchant William Grimmer in 1819.
See also
*
Clavering hundred
References
# Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001.
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes"
External links
William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845
*
ttp://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm St Margaret's church, Toft Monks
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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