Scole

Scole is a village on the Norfolk–Suffolk 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 14.31 km² (5.53 sq mi) and had a population of 1,339 in 563 households at the 2001 census;[1] the population had increased to 1,367 at the 2011 Census.[2]

Scole
St Andrew's Church, Scole
Scole Location within Norfolk
Area	14.31 km^2 (5.53 sq mi)
Population	1,367
• Density	96/km^2 (250/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TM149789
Civil parish	Scole
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DISS
Postcode district	IP21
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England

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.[3]

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 in the same name exists. This ward stretches east to Needham and at the 2011 Census had a total population of 2,357.[4]

See also

• Scole Experiment, a series of mediumistic séances which took place in the village

Notes

1. "Scole parish information". South Norfolk Council. 17 May 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
2. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 9 September 2015.
3. Betjeman, John, ed. (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South. London: Collins; p. 317
4. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 9 September 2015.

References

• Office for National Statistics, 2001. Census information for Scole.

External links

• Scole Parish website