Morton on the Hill is a small but 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the
English county
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of
Norfolk
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
, about north-west of
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...
. The parish covers an area of and had a population of 85 in 34 households at the
2001 census.
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district
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of Broadland
Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. Its council is based at the Broadland Business Park on the outskirts of Norwich. The district includes the towns of Acle, Aylsham, Reepham, Spro ...
.
The village's name means 'Moor farm/settlement'.
Its church, St Margaret, is one of 124 existing round-tower church
Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berks ...
es in Norfolk. The round tower is partly in ruins.
Notes
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Morton%20on%20the%20Hill
External links
St Margaret's on the European Round Tower Churches website
Broadland
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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