Aldeby is a village and

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in the

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. It is bounded to the south by the River Waveney, on the other side of which is

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. The village is about five miles (8 km) by road from

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History

The name Aldeby derives from the Old Norse word meaning 'old fortification'. The civil parish has an area of 12.61 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 437 in 175 household, falling to a population of 422 in 180 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the area of the

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Aldeby is well known for its fishing pits and also historically for the apple factory (Waveney Apple Growers Ltd) based on Common Road that closed in the late 1990s. It also once had its own

Aldeby railway station Aldeby railway station was a station in Aldeby, in the English county of Norfolk. It was on the line between Great Yarmouth and Beccles; the station was opened in 1854 when the line from Ipswich to Beccles was extended northwards. It was closed ...

Aldeby is mentioned in the

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and was part of

Clavering hundred Clavering hundred was a hundred (county subdivision), hundred – or geographical subdivision – comprising parishes and settlements in Essex and Norfolk. Hundreds were divisions of areas of land within shires or county, counties for administrati ...

Aldeby Priory Aldeby Priory was a 12th-century Benedictine monastic house in Aldeby, Norfolk, England. History Agnes de Beaupré, who was afterwards the wife of Hubert de Rye, gave in the reign of Henry I of England, Henry I, the church and manor of Aldeby t ...

was located here. Between 1959 and 1968, the village was the location of a Royal Observer Corps monitoring bunker, to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. It remains mostly intact.

War Memorial

Saint-Mary-the-Virgin Church holds the village's war memorials. The memorial to the fallen of the

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holds 23 names which are: * Company Sergeant-Major Walter R. Snowling (1894-1916), 2nd Battalion,

Suffolk Regiment The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. It saw service for three centuries, participating in many wars and conflicts, including the First and Second World Wars, before bein ...

* Lance-Corporal Frederick H. B. Alp (d.1916), 22nd Battalion,

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* Lance-Corporal Benjamin Wright (d.1917), 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment * Lance-Corporal Fred S. Wright (d.1916), 2nd Battalion,

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* Shoeing Smith James Eggett (1873-1918), 87th Battery,

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* Gunner Alfred A. Manthorpe (d.1918), 252nd Siege Battery,

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* Private Harold Howes (1894-1918), 33rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers * Private George Alger (d.1917), 7th Battalion,

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* Private James H. Rouse (1897-1917), 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment * Private Arthur E. Self (1895-1916), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Joseph Soanes, 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Bertie W. Brown (d.1917), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Fred H. Slater (d.1917), 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Richard W. Slater (1893-1919), 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Frederick Simpson (d.1915), 10th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private William Thrower (d.1918), 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment * Private Herbert G. Cooper (1896-1915), 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Private Allard J. Saker (1896-1915), 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Private Henry Newson (d.1919), 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Seaman Leonard Alp (1896-1915), ''HMS Clan MacNaughton'' * Chief Cook Harry C. Orpin (d.1915), ''HMS Pembroke'' * Deck-Hand Arthur Soanes (1879-1917), ''HM

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'' * Engineman Fred W. Leathers (1891-1916), ''HM Drifter Buckler'' And the following six names for the

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: * Private Ernest J. Tye (1924-1945), 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment * Pilot Officer Edward M. Gunther (1920-1940),

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* Sergeant Jack A. G. Reynolds (1923-1943),

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* Sergeant-Air Gunner Edward A. J. Farrow (1926-1945), No. 158 Squadron RAF * Able Seaman James W. Soanes (1914-1929), '' HMS Tigris (N63)'' * Second-Hand Sidney C. Burroughs (1914-1942), ''HMS Ullswater''

References

* Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001.
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
'. Retrieved 2 December 2005. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Aldeby

External links

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Parish Council
* Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub