Toft Monks is a village and
parish
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in
Norfolk
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, England. It is located on the border of Norfolk and
Suffolk about eleven miles southwest of
Great Yarmouth and four miles north of
Beccles
Beccles ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 and A12 roads, north-east of London as the crow fl ...
.
In 2001, the parish is recorded as accommodating 324 people in 131
household
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s over 687
hectare
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s, increasing to 348 at the 2011 Census.
The local
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
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* C ...
in the village is dedicated to
St. Margaret and was originally constructed in the 13th century.
Toft Monks House is a Grade II listed Regency house built for local merchant William Grimmer in 1819.
See also
*
Clavering hundred
Clavering hundred was a hundred – or geographical subdivision – comprising parishes and settlements in Essex and Norfolk. Hundreds were divisions of areas of land within shires or counties for administrative and judicial purposes – and for t ...
References
# Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001.
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes"
External links
William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845
*
ttp://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm St Margaret's church, Toft Monks
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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