Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby is a

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in the

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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

. It is made up of the inland village of Ormesby St Margaret and the adjacent

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s of Scratby and California. The villages are some apart, and they are situated about north of the town of

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and east of the city of

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.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. . The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 4,021 in 1,680 households, the population reducing to 3,974 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001).
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
''. Retrieved 2 December 2005. Ormesby St Margaret is separate from the village of

Ormesby St Michael Ormesby St Michael is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some north-west of the town of Great Yarmouth and east of the city of Norwich. Nearby are Ormesby Broad and Ormesby Little Broad, both par ...

, which lies some to the west. Great Ormesby railway station was once located here on the line between

and

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. It is now closed. California owes its name to the discovery of some 16th-century

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on the beach in 1848, at a time when the

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had captured the attention of the world.FleggIsland.co.uk (2005).
The Flegg Villages
'. Retrieved 22 January 2005. The 1940s

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museum

Blitz and Pieces Blitz and Pieces is a museum in Scratby in Great Yarmouth, England, owned and operated by Darren Stride. Based on the British Home Front during World War II and the BBC comedy ''Dad's Army'', the museum is housed in a 1940s prefabricated buil ...

is based in the parish.

Toponymy

The name 'Ormesby' means 'Omr's farm/settlement'. Scratby's name origin is not known.

Governance

Ormesby

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includes Ormesby St Michael and had a total population at the 2011 Census of 4,268.

Parish Church

St Margaret's Parish Church dates back to the 14th century. It is said that

Alice Clere Alice Clere (died 1538) was the third daughter of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Margaret Ormond (otherwise Butler), the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. Alice was thus the sister of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshi ...

(d. 1 November 1538) made sure that the church tower was completed, as the workmen had taken far too long. Alice Clere, the daughter of Sir

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, was an aunt of

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. ''Vide:'' interior and exterior photographs available through external links.

Scratby Hall

Scratby Hall, the country house of John Ramey, was occupied by his daughter, the Dowager Countess of

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, until her death in 1814. The house was originally built by John Fisher, Esq. John Ramey, Esq., an attorney, then barrister, retired to Scratby Hall, where he died in 1796. He let a house in Scratby to the diarist Sylas Neville between 1769 and 1772, who describes his encounters with local society including John Ramey. From 1949 to the mid-1980s, the home and estate served as

Duncan Hall School Duncan Hall School was a boys’ prep school at Scratby Hall in Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk from 1949 to 1986, with girls admitted from 1979. Prior to occupying Scratby Hall, it was located in Great Yarmouth and was called Duncan ...

. In 1989, a fire damaged 40% of the 11 bedroom country house.

Notable residents

* Thomas Webster (1631–1715), who was born in Ormesby St. Margaret and eventually settled in

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, was the great-great-grandfather of the prominent 19th century American politician

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Notes

External links

* for Ormesby St Margaret * for Scratby
Ormesby Medical CentreOrmesby, Scratby and California CommunityInformation from Genuki Norfolk
on Ormesby St Margaret

* http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Ormesby%20St%20Margaret%20&%20St%20Michael

External links

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