Toft Monks is a village and parish in Norfolk, England. It is located on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk about eleven miles southwest of Great Yarmouth and four miles north of Beccles.
In 2001, the parish is recorded as accommodating 324 people in 131 households over 687 hectares[1], increasing to 348 at the 2011 Census.[1]
The local church in the village is dedicated to St. Margaret and was originally constructed in the 13th century.
Toft Monks House is a Grade II listed Regency house built for local merchant William Grimmer in 1819.
^"Parish population 2011". Retrieved 10 September 2015.
ToftMonks is a village and parish in Norfolk, England. It is located on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk about eleven miles southwest of Great Yarmouth...
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small ledges for monks to perch on during services, often decorated with varied and humorous carvings. Many rooms used by the monks have been repurposed...
preceded his birth by several hundred years. The double monastery of Celtic monks and nuns was home (614–680) to the great Northumbrian poet Cædmon. In 664...
suppression of the Abbey (May 1538), there were seventeen monks in residence. The displaced monks of Battle Abbey were provided with pensions, including...
17 July 2003 by a workman on a flood defence scheme.[citation needed] ToftMonks mill is a disused windpump that used to drain the marshes into the River...
decline. Only 22 new monks were tonsured between 1500 and 1539, and at the time of the abbey's dissolution in 1539, there were only 10 monks in residence. The...
by Henry VIII at the dissolution of the monasteries, and the surviving monks pensioned. The buildings were rapidly disassembled for their building materials...
destruction, or at least the loss of all records. It is possible that some monks provided a continuity through to its refoundation in 970, under a Benedictine...
165. Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "House of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Malmesbury". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 3. Victoria...
Anglo-Saxon, Berhtwald, but British monks remained for many years. King Ine of Wessex enriched the endowment of the community of monks established at Glastonbury...
Hutchinson Encyclopedia (1988), p. 14 Page, William. "Houses of Benedictine monks, The abbey of Cerne". A History of the County of Dorset, vol. 1. British...
appears not to have been an initial success, by 1072, the number of attendant monks had reduced to two. The present building was begun by Abbott Serlo in about...
in 1494, by which time the priory was in ruins and there were only two monks. The lands were then granted to Westminster Abbey. There was no trace of...
number of monks living at Boxgrove was increased from the original three to six. Robert had died by 1165. By 1187 there were 15 monks. A 19th monk was added...
appointments of monks being filled by Englishmen, but was seized again by Henry V and bestowed on his new charterhouse at Sheen, and the monks dispersed. Elizabeth...
Bath. Following his death the monks of Bath unsuccessfully attempted to regain authority over Wells. There were 40 monks on the roll in 1206. Joint cathedral...
onwards it was common for St Albans to send recalcitrant monks to Tynemouth as punishment. One such monk wrote a letter in the mid 14th century giving the first...
founded by King Stephen and his wife Matilda of Boulogne in 1148. A party of monks from Bermondsey Abbey provided the nucleus and the first abbot. At the Dissolution...
Benedictine monks from Abingdon Abbey, establishing the cathedral priory. Originally intended for 70 monks, the community declined to 62 monks in 1262 and...
Abingdon Abbey by King Edgar of England in 964. In the eleventh century the monks engineered the Abbey River as an offshoot of the River Thames to supply...
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