BOWTHORPE, a parish in the hundred of FOREHOE, county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (W. by N.) from Norwich. The population is returned with Bawburgh. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, was, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, used as a storehouse for grain j but, by a decree in Chancery, obtained in 1635, it was restored to its original purpose. The living was formerly a rectory, in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of the College of St. Mary in the Fields, at Norwich, who, in 1522, petitioned the bishop for its reduction to a curacy; since the restoration of the church, in 1635, the living has been a donative, to which the Rev. E. Frank presented in 1791.