Thrigby is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

east of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

, now in the parish of Mautby, in the

Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A pop ...

district, in the county of

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 ...

, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 47.

Amenities

It has a church called St Mary. Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens are on Filby Road.

Thrigby Windmill Thrigby Post Windmill is located in the civil parish of Mautby in the English county of Norfolk.''OS Explorer Map OL40'' – The Broads. The mill is on the south side of Mill Lane east of the village of Thrigby. The post mill is north of The Riv ...

is 1 mile east of the village.

History

The name "Thrigby" is Old Scandinavian and means 'Thrykki's farm/settlement'. Thrigby was recorded in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

as ''Trikebei''/''Trukebei''. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Mautby.

References

Villages in Norfolk Former civil parishes in Norfolk Borough of Great Yarmouth {{Norfolk-geo-stub