Ingoldisthorpe

Ingoldisthorpe is a village and civil parish in the north-west of the English county of Norfolk. It is located approximately 9 miles (14 km) north-east of the town King's Lynn and 37 miles (60 km) from the county town of Norwich.^[1]

The villages name means 'Ingjaldr's outlying farmstead'.^{[citation needed]}

The civil parish has an area of 5.63 km² (2.17 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 780 in 336 households, including Shernborne the population increasing to 849 at the 2011 Census.^[2] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.^[3]

Notable residents

William Hoste, Royal Navy captain during the Napoleonic Wars

Notes

^ Ordnance Survey (2002). OS Explorer Map 250 - Norfolk Coast West. ISBN 0-319-21886-4.
^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
^ 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/Ingoldsthorpe

External links

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Map sources for Ingoldisthorpe
Information from Genuki Norfolk on Ingoldisthorpe.