Kirby Cane is a scattered village and

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 ...

centred west northwest 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 fli ...

and northeast of

Bungay Bungay () is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . It lies in the Waveney Valley, west of Beccles on the edge of The Broads, and at the neck of a meand ...

. It is in south-east

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 housed 375 people in 152 households as at

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– then 434 in 179 households at the 2011 Census, the increase in households being almost 18% – unusually large for England. Its north-eastern neighbourhood is often known as Kirby Green. The most populous part is often known as Kirby Row, which is from the heart of

Ellingham, Norfolk Ellingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located north-east of Bungay and south-east of Norwich, along the River Waveney. The majority of the population lies in the east of the parish in Kirby R ...

and which is, narrowly, mainly in that parish – whether taken in its historical borders or on its similar boundaries of today. The land drains gently south to the

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which is the border with

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

. Further north of its isolated church and its small smattering of houses is Wash Lane which leads to the A146 road (between Norwich and Beccles). The church is from

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 ...

in the centre of the county.

Church of All Saints

This church has one of 124 existing round towers in Norfolk and it is crenellated (has an embattled parapet wall on its roof, and furthermore lancet and slit windows) and built of rustic, light, local stone with a hipped roof of slate or other tiles. It is a Grade I

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, which is the highest and by far the rarest category of statutory protection and recognition.

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Bounds of the ecclesiastical (C of E) parish today
- A Church Near You (The Church of England)
Bounds of the civil parish recently; in the 1880s; and other statistics
- Vision of Britain (The University of Portsmouth and others)
Notes on village
genuki collaborative genealogy and local research information for UK and Ireland (now part of origins.org.uk)
All Saints on the European Round Tower Churches website
roundtowerchurches.net
Pictures and articles on Kirby Cane and Ellingham
kirbycaneandellinghamhistoricalresearchgroup.btck.co.uk {{authority control Churches in Norfolk Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk

Church of All Saints

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