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Strumpshaw
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Strumpshaw is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located on the northern bank of the River Yare around 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Norwich. The parish covers an area of 11.69 km2 (4.51 sq mi) and had a population of 602 in 245 households at the 2001 census,[2] increasing to a population of 634 in 261 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland.
Strumpshaw | |
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Location within Norfolk | |
Area | 11.69 km2 (4.51 sq mi) |
Population | 634 (2011)[1] |
• Density | 54/km2 (140/sq mi) |
OS grid reference | TG350077 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NORWICH |
Postcode district | NR13 |
Police | Norfolk |
Fire | Norfolk |
Ambulance | East of England |
52.6171°N 1.4702°E / 52.6171; 1.4702 |
The villages name means 'stump wood'.
The village lies a little distance from the river, on the slopes of Strumpshaw Hill, the highest area of land in the Norfolk Broads. Because of its elevation, Strumpshaw hosted, from the late 1790s through to the mid-1810s, a repeater station in the shutter telegraph chain linking the Admiralty in London with Great Yarmouth. The Wherry Lines railway line running between Norwich and Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft runs through the parish. Trains call at Buckenham railway station at weekends only.
The small villages of Buckenham and Hassingham, formally both parishes in their own right, lie within the civil parish of Strumpshaw.