Gayton Thorpe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gayton, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England.

[3] In the Domesday Book, Gayton Thorpe is listed as a settlement of 43 households in the hundred of Freebridge.

[4] Near the village is the site of Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa, discovered and first excavated in the early 20th century.

[5] Gayton Thorpe falls within the constituency of North West Norfolk and is represented at Parliament by James Wild MP of the Conservative Party.

St Mary's also features a medieval font depicting the Seven Sacraments,[6] and is Grade I listed.