Gateway on path
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Gateway on path
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 17 Feb 2018
The path leads to the eastern section of Thorpe cemetery which until 1903 had been used by the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum. The cemetery was opened in 1859. The two acres of land had been purchased for £500, with half the amount having been raised by voluntary rate and the remainder was contributed from the funds of the Lunatic Asylum, situated a short distance further to the east, to which one acre was appropriated. The asylum buried its dead there until 1903 and the old graves have since been re-used. The area occupied by the houses seen in the background used to be allotment gardens.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.627627
Longitude
1.353857