Toft Monks
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| Toft Monks | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St Margaret's church, Toft Monks | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TM425945 |
| Location: | 52°29’38"N, 1°34’16"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 348 (2011) |
| Post town: | Beccles |
| Postcode: | NR34 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Norfolk |
Toft Monks is a village in Norfolk, on the north bank of the River Waveney, which marks Norfolk’s border with Suffolk t the south.
The village is about four miles north of Beccles in Suffolk and eleven miles south-west of Great Yarmouth.
The wider parish includes the hamlets of Bull's Green and Maypole Green, and had a recorded population of 348 at the 2011 Census.
The parish church, St. Margaret, was originally built in the 13th century.
Toft Monks House is a Grade II listed Regency house built for local merchant William Grimmer in 1819.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Toft Monks) |
- Information on Toft Monks from GENUKI (William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845]
- Francis White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk 1854
- St Margaret's church, Toft Monks