Thorpe Hamlet

{{Short description|Suburb of Norwich, England}}

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Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.

The population of the Thorpe Hamlet ward in Norwich was 10,557 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13693659&c=Thorpe+Hamlet&d=14&e=62&g=6450159&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1441377614364&enc=1|title=Norwich ward population 2011|accessdate=4 September 2015}}

The Church of St Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet was erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the River Wensum.

Until 1852 it was part of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich.{{cite web|last1=Goreham|first1=G.|title=Thorpe Hamlet|url=http://www.thorpehamlet.free-online.co.uk/sub_goreham_1.htm|publisher=G. Goreham 1972|accessdate=October 7, 2014|quote=The church of St. Matthew, erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the river Wensum.}}{{cite web|last1=Pat|first1=(Kelly's - originally) Newby|title=Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1912|url=http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/t/thorpe_hamlet/kelly1912.shtml|website=Genuki|publisher=Kelly's|accessdate=October 7, 2013}}