Thorpe Market

Human settlement in England

Thorpe Market

District

North Norfolk

Norfolk

Region

East

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North Norfolk

List of places: UK; England; Norfolk

52°52′30″N 1°19′43″E / 52.8751°N 1.3285°E / 52.8751; 1.3285

Thorpe Market is a village in the English county of Norfolk.^[2] The village is 4.4 miles south of Cromer, and 20.5 miles north of Norwich. The nearest railway station is at Gunton on the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International. The village straddles the A149 road from King's Lynn to Great Yarmouth. The village's name means 'Outlying farm/settlement with a market'.^[3]

The parish church

The parish church of Thorpe Market is called St Margaret's. The present church was built in 1796 on the site of an older mediaeval church. This later church was one of the first Gothic Revival buildings to be erected in the county of Norfolk and was built on the instructions of the first Lord Suffield. The church has an unusual colour scheme inside having pink walls and a blue plaster ceiling. Most of the furnishings are from the late 19th century. There are two screens.^[4]^[5] The church is part of the ten parishes which are overseen by the Trunch team ministry.

References

^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^ Ordnance Survey, Explorer Sheet 252, Norfolk Coast East, ISBN 978-0-319-46726-8
^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk.
^ "Church of St. Margaret, Thorpe Market - 1049786". Historic England. 30 October 1902. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
^ "Search the List - Find listed buildings, monuments, battlefields and more". Historic England. 30 October 1902. Retrieved 29 June 2023.