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Strumpshaw

Village in Norfolk, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
os_grid_reference	TG350077
official_name	Strumpshaw
population	634
population_ref	(2011)
area_total_km2	11.69
shire_district	Broadland
shire_county	Norfolk
region	East of England
civil_parish	Strumpshaw
postcode_district	NR13
postcode_area	NR
post_town	NORWICH
dial_code	01603
static_image_name	St Peter, Strumpshaw, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 1247274.jpg
static_image_caption	St Peter’s Church, Strumpshaw

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 mi south-east of Norwich. The parish covers an area of 11.69 km2 and had a population of 602 in 245 households at the 2001 census, 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.

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, formerly both parishes in their own right, lie within the civil parish of Strumpshaw.

Strumpshaw Hall

Strumpshaw Hall lies closer to the river, next to the railway line. It is the home of the Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum, with a collection of traction engines and steam rollers. It also has a showman's engine, a steam wagon and a narrow-gauge railway with a Simplex diesel disguised as a steam engine.

Natural environment

The Strumpshaw Fen RSPB reserve is operated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It caters for up to 20,000 visitors annually. It is bordered to the east by Buckenham Marshes RSPB reserve and lies within the Mid-Yare National Nature Reserve and Yare Broads and Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Rail Access

The nearest station is Buckenham railway station on the Wherry Line.

Notes

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Strumpshaw

References

"Civi Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
[http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes] {{webarchive. link. (2017-02-11 . Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.)

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