Scole () is a village on the
Norfolk–
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
border in
England. It is 19 miles south of
Norwich and lay on the old Roman road to
Venta Icenorum, which was the main road until it was bypassed with a dual carriageway. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,339 in 563 households at the
2001 census; the population had increased to 1,367 at the 2011 Census.
It lies on the north bank of the
River Waveney.
The parish church of St Andrew was rebuilt in the 1960s after a fire raiser had burnt it. There is an east window by
Patrick Reyntiens, 1963.
Scole is the birthplace of
William Gooderham (1792) and
Ezekiel Gooderham (1794), founders of the Gooderham and Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada, later to be the largest in the British Empire.
Governance
An
electoral ward
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to t ...
in the same name exists. This ward stretches east to
Needham and at the 2011 Census had a total population of 2,357.
See also
*
Scole Experiment, a series of mediumistic séances which took place in the village
Notes
References
Office for National Statistics, 2001. Census information for Scole
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Scole
External links
Scole Parish website
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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