Yaxham

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Yaxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish includes the village of Yaxham itself, together with the neighbouring community of Clint Green. Together, they lie some 2 miles (3 km) south of Dereham and 20 miles (32 km) west of Norwich.^[1]

The civil parish has an area of 6.64 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 677 in 290 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Breckland.^[2]

Yaxham St. Peter is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.

Yaxham railway station in the village is on the Mid-Norfolk Railway, a heritage railway running between the historic market towns of Wymondham and Dereham. The Yaxham Light Railway can also be found adjacent to the railway station.

[edit] See also

• HMS Yaxham, a Ham class minesweeper

[edit] References

• ^  Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 238 - East Dereham & Aylsham. ISBN 0-319-21869-4.
• ^  Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Map sources for Yaxham.
• Map sources for Clint Green.
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Yaxham.
• Yaxham village web site
• Website with photos of Yaxham St. Peter, a round-tower church
• Yaxham light railway