Scole () is a village on the
Norfolk
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–
Suffolk
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border in
England
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. It is 19 miles south of
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...
and lay on the old Roman road to
Venta Icenorum
Venta Icenorum (, literally "marketplace of the Iceni") was the civitas or capital of the Iceni tribe, located at modern-day Caistor St Edmund in the English county of Norfolk. The Iceni inhabited the flatlands and marshes of that county and ...
, 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 River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The earliest attestation of the name is from 1275, ''Wahenhe'', from ''*wagen + ea'', meaning the river by a q ...
.
The parish church of St Andrew was rebuilt in the 1960s after being destroyed in an arson attack in 1963. There is an east window by
Patrick Reyntiens dating from 1963.
Scole is the birthplace of
William Gooderham (1790) 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 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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