Woodbastwick is a village and

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in the

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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nor ...

. It is located on the

River Bure The River Bure is a river in the county of Norfolk, England, most of it in the Broads.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. . The Bure rises near Melton Constable, upstream of Aylsham, which was the original head ...

between Cockshoot Broad and

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, within

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and close to

Bure Marshes NNR Bure Marshes NNR Bure Marshes National Nature Reserve (NNR) is maintained by English Nature in Norfolk, England, within The Broads National Park. It is mostly fen land and includes four Broads which are disused peat workings dug between 900 and 1 ...

( national nature reserve). The city of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...

lies to the south-west. The village name relates to bast, a pliable substance found under the bark of the lime tree. Danish and

Saxon The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic * * * * peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...

invaders used bast as a form of binding to tie leggings and other items. As a consequence, Woodbastwick's

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shows two invaders tying their leggings. The village contains thatched houses set around a village green, and the church of St Fabian & St Sebastian, also thatched. The Woodforde Broadland Brewery is located in the village and produces

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s such as ''Wherry Bitter'', ''Nelson's Revenge'', ''Norfolk Nog'' and ''Headcracker''. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 362 in 157 households, increasing to a population of 399 in 168 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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Broadland Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. The population of the local authority district taken at the 2011 Census was 124,646. Its council is based in Thorpe St Andrew. In 2013, Broadland w ...

Woodbastwick Hall Woodbastwick Hall is a country house at Woodbastwick in Norfolk. History The house dates back to circa 1600. In 1807 the house and estates were acquired for £76,000 from the trustees of Thomas Allday Kerrison by John Barwell Cator (nephew of Joh ...

is the seat of the Cator family.

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Woodbastwick Church and the Broadside Benefice ParishesInformation from Genuki Norfolk
on Woodbastwick.

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