Thorpe Next Norwich, Norfolk : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Thorpe Next Norwich. You may be able to find further references to Thorpe Next Norwich in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Thorpe Bartholomew
Thorpe next Norwich township Bartholomew
THORPE-NEXT-NORWICH, or T.-St. Andrew a parish Imperial
Thorpe St Andrew parish Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Thorpe Next Norwich.

Place Type of entry Source
Thorpe township and ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Thorpe St Matthew ecclesiastical district Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Thorpe Next Norwich within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Henry Broadhurst In Journeyings Often 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Whitlingham 1 2
Thorpe Hamlet 0 3
Mousehold 0 2
Trowse 0 2
Great Plumstead 0 2
Sprowston 0 2
Pockthorpe 0 2
Conisford 0 1
Norwich 101 3
Kirby Bedon 0 2
New Catton 0 1
Mancroft 0 1
Coslany 0 1
Bixley 0 2
Rackheath 0 2
Little Plumstead 0 2
Heigham 0 2
Arminghall 0 2
Lakenham 8 2
Catton 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Thorpe Next Norwich. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
THORPE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Henry Broadhurst Henry Broadhurst, M.P.: the story of his life from a stonemason's bench to the Treasury Bench (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1901).
THORPE NEXT NORWICH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
THORPE NEXT NORWICH OR T. ST ANDREW John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
THORPE ST ANDREW John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
T. ST ANDREW John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.