Village Playing Field

​Thorpe Market Parish Council manages the play area and village playing field 

located just down Common Lane on the right hand side.

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If there are any issues with the equipment please contact the Clerk immediately.  

 

St Margaret's Church

The Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Thorpe Market is one of seven Churches comprising the Poppyland Group.

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The Church has its own website at www.thorpemarket.org.uk where details of services over the next month are provided along with contact details for anything else connected with the Church.

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It also provides other information of which some is a little out of date and a very brief history of the Church which can be supplemented by visiting www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thorpemarket/thorpemarket.htm

 

The Church is usually open to visitors.

 

Directions

From the North (Cromer) - drive along the A149 through the village and take the first turning on the left (Church Road) opposite a gateway into the Gunton Estate and signed to Gunton Railway Station. The Church will be found on the left after a few hundred yards - small car park opposite.

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From the South (North Walsham) - drive towards the village from North Walsham along the A149 until reaching 30mph speed limit signs (approx 4 miles). Take the next turning on the right (Church Road) opposite a gateway into the Gunton Estate and signed to Gunton Railway Station. The Church will be found on the left after a few hundred yards - small car park opposite.

 

As a small church within a large group, services are not held here every week.

For those visiting the area there are a number of other churches to visit. Weekly services are held in Cromer and North Walsham and less frequently in other villages. However, there are some lovely churches to visit, most have something of interest to see (the roof at Knapton) or have interesting histories.

There are Roman Catholic Churches at Cromer and North Walsham, a number of Methodist Chapels throughout the area and a Quaker Meeting House at Swafield.

 

Church and Village History, Genealogy etc

Anybody seeking a more comprehensive account of the church and village history should have a look at www.thorpemarket.org.uk

 

This was once the site to visit for the fullest information on all local history and activities centred on the Church and as a memento of such an active time the old entries remain for all to see.         

 

Much of the creative drive and effort behind those activities, rapidly arranged one-off charity concerts in shopping Mall’s etc in aid of disasters world wide and the restoration of the building quite recently was provided by local resident and former organist Margaret Hunter and the team she had created around her. Margaret has a deep interest in local history as a walk through her website will show. She has assisted (and continues to do so) hundreds of people to trace family history and to view the graves of their ancestors and was fairly recently awarded an MBE for her efforts.

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