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Scoulton

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Population
  
246 (2011 Census)

Region
  
East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Area
  
9.02 km²

Shire county
  
Norfolk

OS grid reference
  
TF9800

Country
  
England

Post town
  
NORWICH

Local time
  
Saturday 8:07 AM

District
  
Breckland District

Scoulton

Weather
  
6°C, Wind NE at 13 km/h, 88% Humidity

Scoulton is a small village and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England, situated 16 miles (26 km) west of the city of Norwich and 21 miles (34 km) north-north-east of Thetford.

Map of Scoulton, UK

Scoulton lies on the main road between Norwich and the market town of Watton. Increasingly a dormitory for workers in Norwich's insurance 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 Saxon church.

The civil parish has an area of 9.02 km2 (3.48 sq mi) and in 2011 had a population of 246 in 99 households. 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 of Breckland.

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 great black-headed gull. 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.

References

Scoulton Wikipedia