Burnham Thorpe
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Burnham Thorpe is a small village and civil parish on the River Burn and near the coast of Norfolk in England. It is famous for being the birthplace of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, victor at the Battle of Trafalgar and one of England's greatest heroes. At the time of his birth, Nelson's father was rector of the church in Burnham Thorpe, and both the birthplace and the church can still be seen.
Burnham Thorpe is one of the Burnhams, a group of adjacent villages in North Norfolk, and lies about 1 mile (2 km) to the east of the larger village of Burnham Market, and the same distance south of the village and tiny port of Burnham Overy. The small port town of Wells-next-the-Sea is 4 miles (6 km) to the east, whilst the larger town of King's Lynn is 20 miles (30 km) to the south-west and the city of Norwich is 30 miles (50 km) to the south-east.Template:Ref
The civil parish has an area of 9.56 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 168 in 81 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.Template:Ref
References
- Template:Note Ordnance Survey (2002). OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central. ISBN 0319218872.
- Template:Note Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005.
External links
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Burnham Thorpe.
- Norfolkcoast.co.uk on Burnham Thorpe