Ashby St Mary
| Ashby St Mary | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St Mary, Ashby St Mary | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG329021 |
| Location: | 52°34’3"N, 1°26’11"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 316 (2011) |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR14 |
| Local Government | |
Ashby St Mary is a village in Norfolk. The civil parish had a recorded population of 316 in 120 households at the 2011 Census.
The village is seven and a half miles south-east of Norwich and a mile north of Thurton, with Claxton (to the north), Hellington (to the west) and Carleton St Peter (to the east) all lying a similar distance away.
Parish church
The parish church, St Mary's, has a high tower, a long, low nave, and an impressive Norman door.[1]
A tombstone in the graveyard depicts a lady with geese: this much-photographed carving is repeated on the village sign, which was commissioned in 2000 to celebrate the millennium. It also depicts a windmill which stood in the village until at least 1916.
The Church was used in October 2010 by Music composer Jamie Robertson who along with the Poringland Singers Choir recorded an incidental soundtrack to the Big Finish Productions story Doctor Who Relative Dimensions (with Paul McGann, Jake McGann, Carole Ann Ford and Niky Wardley).
History
The village is recorded in the Domesday Book.
Thomas de Cottingham, a royal clerk who later became Master of the Rolls in Ireland was appointed rector of Ashby in 1349: he was notorious for pluralism,[2] which is to say holding several profitable church livings at the same time.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ashby St Mary) |
- Information on Ashby St Mary from GENUKI
- Ashby St Mary Parish Council Website The Official Website of Ashby St Mary Parish Council
- Ashby St Mary church
- Ashby windmill
- Ashby St Mary in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ Ashby St Mary
- ↑ Blomfeld, Francis and Parkin, Charles: 'Topographical History of the County of Norfolk' (1810) Vol. XI p.147