Thorpe Morieux

Thorpe Morieux
St Mary, Thorpe Morieux
Thorpe Morieux is located in Suffolk
Thorpe Morieux
Thorpe Morieux
Location within Suffolk
Population232 (2011)[1]
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBury St Edmunds
Postcode districtIP30
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk
52°08′42″N 0°50′10″E / 52.145°N 0.836°E / 52.145; 0.836

Thorpe Morieux (/məˈr/ Mə-ROO) is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is 10 miles south-east of Bury St Edmunds and 10 miles north east of Sudbury.

Located in Babergh district, the parish contains the hamlets of Thorpe Green and Almshouses Green, as well as Great Hastings Wood (part of the Thorpe Morieux Woods SSSI), which is classified as Ancient Woodland. It was anciently in the Cosford Hundred.

There are 14 listed buildings in the parish, mostly grade II with the grade II* Thorpe Hall and the grade I parish church of St Mary the Virgin.[2]

The village is located on the river Brett.

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Listed Buildings in Thorpe Morieux, Babergh, Suffolk". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2020.