Thornage is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 2.7 miles south-west of Holt, 23.2 miles north-west of Norwich and 11.3 miles east of Fakenham, and straddles the B1110 road between Holt and Guist. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is at Norwich International Airport.
Thornage Village sign
Portrait of William Butts after Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1540)
Sir William Butts was a member of King Henry VIII of England's court and was the King's physician.
Portrait of William Butts aged 59 by Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1543)
Margaret Butts, portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
William Butts with a Memento Mori
Tomb of Sir William Butts the younger, at Thornage (1583)