OBY (or Owby) is 3 miles south-west from Martham station on the Midland and Great Northern joint railway, and 4 ½ north-north-east from Acle station on the Norwich and Yarmouth section of the Great Eastern railway. The church has all but disappeared, but in 1882, on making an excavation in the churchyard, the Rev. W. C. Davie M.A. then rector, came upon the foundations of the old church and the remains of an encaustic tiled floor; the inhabitants attend the church at Thurne. The rent of 2a. 2r. 30p. of land, amounting to £6 yearly, is distributed; two-thirds being assigned to the poor and one-third to the church. Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (1234—70), was lord of this manor. Thomas Alfred Rising esq. of Ormesby St. Margaret, who is lord of the manor of Thurne, with Ashby and Oby, and Wyndham C. Cremer (lord of the manor of Oby with Thurne), the trustees of the late C. W. Millard, the Harmer family, Thomas Rising, of Rollesby, the Rev. H. J. Muskett M.A. of Clippesby House, and James Littlewood esq. are the principal landowners.