Aldeby is a village and

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in the

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. It is bounded to the south by the

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, on the other side of which is Suffolk. 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 StMary's

Aldeby is mentioned in the

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and was part of

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. Aldeby Priory was located here. Between 1959 and 1968, the village was the location of a

Royal Observer Corps The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated in the United Kingdom between 29 October 1925 and 31 Decembe ...

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

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

holds 23 names which are: * Company Sergeant-Major Walter R. Snowling (1894-1916), 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Lance-Corporal Frederick H. B. Alp (d.1916), 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers * Lance-Corporal Benjamin Wright (d.1917), 2nd Battalion,

Northamptonshire Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1960. In 1960, it was amalgamated with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's O ...

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

Royal Berkshire Regiment The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was created in 1881, as the Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), b ...

* Shoeing Smith James Eggett (1873-1918), 87th Battery, Royal Field Artillery * Gunner Alfred A. Manthorpe (d.1918), 252nd Siege Battery,

Royal Garrison Artillery The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) ...

* Private Harold Howes (1894-1918), 33rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers * Private George Alger (d.1917), 7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment * Private James H. Rouse (1897-1917), 11th Battalion,

Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...

* Private Arthur E. Self (1895-1916), 1st Battalion,

Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

* 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 Armed trawler Ethel & Millie'' * 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 The Monmouthshire Regiment was a Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial infantry regiment of the British Army. Originating in units of Volunteer Force (Great Britain), rifle volunteers formed in Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire in 1859, ...

* Pilot Officer Edward M. Gunther (1920-1940), No. 501 Squadron RAF * Sergeant Jack A. G. Reynolds (1923-1943), No. 44 Squadron RAF * Sergeant-Air Gunner Edward A. J. Farrow (1926-1945),

No. 158 Squadron RAF No. 158 Squadron RAF was a World War I proposed ground attack squadron that did not become operational in time to see action, and a World War II bomber squadron. After World War II had ended in Europe the squadron operated in the transport role ...

* Able Seaman James W. Soanes (1914-1929), ''

HMS Tigris (N63) HMS ''Tigris'' was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard and launched in October 1939. Career ''Tigris'' had a relatively active career, serving in the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Home waters ''Ti ...

'' * 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