Saxthorpe parish lies on the north bank of the River Bure at the crossing of the Norwich to Holt "B" road. The village is part of a twin village with its partner Corpusty across the Bure. The settlement is strewn along the higher ground above the Bure water-meadows and the land is a mixture of arable to the north with pastures still predominating on the poorly drained levels.

St Andrew's stands to the east of the main road and dominates the high ground. Largely Perpendicular in style there are, however, a number of features that indicate an earlier Norman origin.

These records were transcribed from Microfilm MF1672 in the collection of the Norfolk Record Office. Although this is a recent filming the state of the source material must have been rather poor with bleached out ink a feature in many periods.

As usual there were poor hand-writing legibility problems to add to the poor reproduction. This was not an easy transcript and a degree of interpretation has been used on occasion. A number of entries were also cross-referred to the Bishop's Transcripts for verification. It is to be hoped that despite these deficiencies an accurate transcript has been made.