Thorpe Morieux | |
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St Mary, Thorpe Morieux | |
Location within Suffolk | |
Population | 232 (2011)[1] |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Bury St Edmunds |
Postcode district | IP30 |
UK Parliament | |
Thorpe Morieux (/məˈruː/ 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.