In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pockthorpe like this:
POCKTHORPE, a hamlet-chapelry in Norwich, St. James parish, Norfolk; within Norwich city. Real property, £3, 239. Pop., 2,055. Houses, 433. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the living of St. James.
The location is that of St James Pockthorpe church, now the Norwich Puppet Theatre.
Pockthorpe through time
Pockthorpe is now part of Norwich district. Click here for graphs and data of how Norwich has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Pockthorpe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Pockthorpe, in Norwich and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22577
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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