Human settlement in England
Thorpe St Andrew
is a town and
civil parish
in the
Broadland
district of
Norfolk
, England. It is situated on the
River Yare
, two miles east of the centre of
Norwich
, and is outside the boundary of the city. The civil parish has an area of 708 ha (1,750 acres) and had a population of 14,556 at the
2011 census
;
[1]
this was an increase from the 2001 figure of 13,762.
[2]
It is the administrative headquarters of the
Broadland
district council
.
History
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Thorpe is in the
Domesday Book
, in which it is spelt ‘Torp’, which is a
Scandinavian
word meaning village (see
Thorp
). It is thought that the
Danes
were in
East Anglia
as early as 870 AD and in 1004
Sweyn
and his ships came up the river to Norwich.
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citation needed
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There is also evidence that Thorpe was occupied by the
Romans
with the discovery of various remains. The earliest references found that relate to the parish are under the names of ‘Thorpe Episcopi’ and ‘Thorpe-next-Norwich’. In later years, it has been known as ‘Thorpe St Andrew’. The
Norfolk County Asylum
was established in the town in May 1814.
[3]
East Anglia's worst
rail crash
happened at Thorpe St Andrew in 1874, killing 25 people and injuring 75.
[4]
Parts of the original town can still be seen along the Yarmouth Road leading out of Norwich. Features here include St Andrew's parish church, the former parish infants school, the Rivergarden public house and the multi-gabled Buck public house.
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Facilities
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There are numerous leisure facilities, groups and organisations including the County Arts indoor and outdoor bowling club on Plumstead Road, Thorpe Kite Flyers and the Starlight Express Majorettes. The
Yare Boat Club
is situated on Thorpe Island, opposite the Rivergarden, and offers rowing on the
River Yare
.
The local high school is
Thorpe St Andrew High School
; it was established in its present form in 1977. The high school is fed by several small primary schools from the local villages along with 3 large primary schools within Thorpe St Andrew. These schools are Dussindale, St Williams and Hillside.
In recent years, Thorpe St Andrew has expanded eastwards in the shape of the Dussindale housing development, which includes Dussindale Primary School, which opened in 2007 and Broadland business park.
Thorpe St Andrew is home to radio station
99.9 Radio Norwich
. The studios are based near Thorpe River Green and the station started broadcasting on 29 June 2006.
Thorpe lies on the River Yare which is part of the
Norfolk Broads
network of navigable rivers. Thorpe Green is on the main Yarmouth Road and gives access to the river with the opposite bank being an island after the creation of the new cut which allowed vessels to make their way to and from the city of Norwich without traversing the town via two low bridges that carry the railway to Yarmouth,
Lowestoft
,
Cromer
and
Sheringham
. Once the location of thriving boat yards, Thorpe Island now offers mooring for mainly
liveaboard
vessels. The only operating boat yards in Thorpe are now towards the east of the town where there are two hire boat operators as well as private facilities and boat building operations.
A commemorative
World War One
plaque stands at the River Green war memorial site. It was unveiled on 4 August 2014 by two local schoolchildren, Harry and Aimee Fuller who attended Hillside Avenue Primary School.
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Roads
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Thorpe St Andrew is bisected by two major roads running from East to West: the
A1042
and
A1242
. The A1242 or Yarmouth Road is part of the old Norwich to
Great Yarmouth
road.
Notable people
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Notes
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a
b
UK Census
(2011).
"Local Area Report ? Thorpe St. Andrew Parish (E04006256)"
.
Nomis
.
Office for National Statistics
.
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Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
Archived
11 February 2017 at the
Wayback Machine
. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
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"St Andrew's Hospital, Thorpe"
. County Asylums. 10 September 2017
. Retrieved
18 April
2019
.
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Rolt, L. T. C., (1986) Red for Danger, 4th edition, Pan Books, with new material by Geoffrey Kichenside;
ISBN
0-330-29189-0
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"Council News"
. Thorpe St Andrew.
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‘MORSE, Sir George Henry’, in
Who Was Who
(London: A. & C. Black);
online edition
by
Oxford University Press
, December 2007, accessed 30 March 2014 (subscription site)
- ^
"Talking Norwich"
. University of East Anglia
. Retrieved
30 January
2020
.
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