Aldeby

Aldeby is a scattered village in the vale of the Waveney and forms part of the district of

South Norfolk. It is well known for its fishing pits and also historically for the apple factory, based on Common Road, called Waveney Apple Growers Ltd. The factory closed in the late 1990s. 

Situation - about 5 miles NE of Beccles & about 10 miles SSW of Great Yarmouth.

Size - 12.61 square KM (4.87 square miles)

Historical Divisions - part of Clavering hundred

Church - St Mary

There was also a small priory founded in the reign of Henry I for the black monks, the remains of which were at one stage converted into a malthouse. 

Deanery - Brooke

Archdeaconry - Norfolk

Civil Registration - Loddon and Clavering registration district (for the registration of births, deaths & marriages between 1837 - 1930 and for censuses 1851 - 1901).

Land and Property - The land was inclosed by the Aldeby Inclosure Act 1806

Population

Poor Houses - After 1834 Aldeby became part of the Loddon and Clavering Union and the workhouse was at Heckingham.

Schools - Historically there was a national school built in 1840.

Transport - Aldeby was a station on the Great Yarmouth to Beccles line. It was opened in 1859 when the line was extended northwards from Ipswich to Beccles, but was closed in 1959.