Morning Thorpe, Norfolk

Description
Morning Thorpe, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles E of Forncett Junction station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 7 1/2 WNW of Bungay. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Long Strat-ton. Acreage, 1011; population, 136. The manor of Morning Thorpe belongs to the Holines family. The manor house, which stands near the church, is a mansion of red brick in the Tudor style. The manor of Boyland, with Boy-land Hall, belongs to the Irbys. Boyland Hdll is a fine Tudor mansion of 1551, and stands in a large and well-wooded park of 150 acres, with an alcove containing over its entrance porch a bust of Queen Elizabeth, brought from Tilbury House. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £272 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, a small building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular and Early English styles, consists of nave and chancel, with a round tower, and has some fine memorial windows, an ancient altar-tomb, and several ancient tombs and memorials.