South Wootton is a village and

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in the

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, approximately north-east of

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. It covers an area of and had a population of 3,717 in 1,450 households at the 2001 Census,Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. increasing at the 2011 Census to a population of 4,247 in 1,696 households. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the

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. The older part of the village grew up around the village green and St. Mary's church, though there has been a fair amount of new housing built since the 1960s. There are two schools in South Wootton, South Wootton Infant School, followed by South Wootton Junior School. The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin in South Wootton is led by the Rector, the Rev. Canon James Nash. It falls under the Parish of The Woottons and the Deanery of Lynn in the Diocese of Norwich.

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