Scoulton is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the county of

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, England, situated west of 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 See of Norwich, with ...

and north-north-east of

Thetford Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just east of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, covering an area of , in 2015 had a population of 24, ...

. The villages name means 'Skuli's farm/settlement' Scoulton lies on the main road between Norwich and the market town of Watton. Increasingly a dormitory for workers in Norwich's

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and other service industries, it was traditionally agricultural, relying particularly on the production of sugar beet and on pig farming. It has a fine, partially

thatched Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (''Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...

Saxon church. The civil parish has an area of Office for National Statistics, 2011.
Population Density, 2011 (QS102EW) - Scoulton (Parish)
'. Retrieved 27 June 2014. and in 2011 had a population of 246 in 99 households.Office for National Statistics, 2011.
Household Composition, 2011 (KS105EW) - Scoulton (Parish)
'. Retrieved 27 June 2014. The population is split between two main areas of settlement and a number of small, isolated farms. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

of Breckland.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001.
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
''. Retrieved 2 December 2005. Scoulton is known for its artificial and heavily wooded lake or "mere", which was the product of extensive flint quarrying and a breeding ground of the

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. Large numbers of eggs were harvested in the Middle Ages. The gull colony survived until at least the 1950s. The harvested eggs formed the basis of a now obsolete dish known as Scoulton Pie. The collection of these eggs is depicted on the village sign.

Notes

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

External links

Scoulton Parish Council
Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk Breckland District {{Norfolk-geo-stub