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Cockthorpe, Norfolk

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OS grid reference
  
TG982422

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Wells-next-the-Sea

District
  
North Norfolk

Civil parish
  
Binham

Region
  
East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Norfolk

Dialling code
  
01328

UK parliament constituency
  
North Norfolk

Cockthorpe, Norfolk httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Population
  
273 (parish, 2001 census)

Cockthorpe is a hamlet within the civil parish of Binham (where the population is included), in the English county of Norfolk. It is 5.2 miles (8.4 km) north-west of Holt, 28.9 miles (46.5 km) north-west of Norwich and 127 miles (204 km) north of London.

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Map of Cockthorpe, Wells-next-the-Sea, UK

The hamlet is close to the North Norfolk coast and the villages of Stiffkey, Blakeney and Morston. The hamlet has a small church which is called All Saints and has a 14th-century tower. The church is now disused.

The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport.

Notable residents

  • Sir Cloudesley Shovell, the distinguished seafarer, was born in Cockthorpe.
  • Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament, (1709–74) was made a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1728. He married into the Calthorpe family, descendants of the Calthorpes who held the manors of Cockthorpe, Norfolk, and Ampton, Suffolk, and who were also sometime Lords of the Manor of Edgbaston. The Fess Ermine in Birmingham's coat of arms is a reference to the arms of the Calthorpe family.
  • Christopher Calthorpe, emigrated to Virginia, arriving 1622 (represented Elizabeth City County and York County in House of Burgesses).http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Calthorpe_Christopher_ca_1560-1763#start_entry
  • References

    Cockthorpe, Norfolk Wikipedia