Thurton
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Thurton is a village in South Norfolk lying 8½ miles (13½ km) south-east of Norwich on the A146 Norwich to Lowestoft road between Framingham Pigot and Loddon. The A146 effectively divides the village in two; a 40 mph limit is in force. At the 2001 census and the 2011 Census Thurton had 223 households and a population of 567.
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Vinony's link graph records 132 inbound references to Thurton, and connects out to England, list of sovereign states and geographic coordinate system.
It is catalogued under topics including Civil parishes in Norfolk and Villages in Norfolk.
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Place details
- Locality
- South Norfolk
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 883
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Thurton
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TG327010
- UK place.population
- 567
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 3.18
- UK place.shire_district
- South Norfolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Norfolk
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.post_town
- NORWICH
- UK place.postcode_district
- NR14
- UK place.postcode_area
- NR
- UK place.dial_code
- 01508
- UK place.static_image
- St Ethelbert, Thurton, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 1281043.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 240px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Ethelbert, Thurton
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Norfolk
- Population
- 567
- Area
- 3.18
- Image
- St Ethelbert, Thurton, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 1281043.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01508
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- Commons category
- Thurton
- postal code
- NR14
- OS grid reference
- TG327010
- P8168
- chasuble
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Encyclopedic overview
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Thurton is a village in South Norfolk lying 8½ miles (13½ km) south-east of Norwich on the A146 Norwich to Lowestoft road between Framingham Pigot and Loddon. The A146 effectively divides the village in two; a 40 mph limit is in force. At the 2001 census and the 2011 Census Thurton had 223 households and a population of 567.
Thurton is written 'Tortuna' in the Domesday Book. The suffix is the Anglo-Saxon 'tun', meaning an enclosed space. The prefix may refer to a thorn bush, or perhaps to the Anglo-Saxon god Thunor, whom the Normans called Thur. So Thurton may mean 'the place of the thorn bush' or 'Thor's enclosure'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thurton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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