Topcroft

  The parish name, Topcroft, is very probably derived from 'the croft or enclosure at the top'. The church stands on one of the highest points in South Norfolk and the top of the tower has been used as a principal observation point by the Ordnance Survey. The greater part of the present-day population lives in a little valley below the church, nearly a mile away. Under Edward the Confessor, Goodwin…