Postwick with Witton

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Postwick with Witton is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, comprising the two nearby villages of Postwick and Witton. Postwick is some 4½ miles (7 km) east of the city of Norwich, just south of the eastern end of the A47 Norwich southern bypass. Witton is 1¾ miles (3 km) to the north-east, north of the A47.^[1]

The civil parish has an area of 8.29 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 323 in 128 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland.^[2] Although the Wherry Lines rail line passes through Postwick, there is no station. In the west of the parish at the junction of the A47 and A1042 is Postwick Park and Ride, one of six such sites surrounding Norwich. A ferry once operated on the River Yare between Postwick and Surlingham, it ceased c1939 following a collision with a coaster ^[1]

[edit] External links

• Postwick with Witton page on Broadland website
• Postwick on Martin & Marie Edwards' web-pages
• Map sources for Postwick.
• Map sources for Witton.
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Postwick.
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Witton.
• All Saints, Postwick
• Postwick Park and Ride

[edit] Further reading

POSTWICK - The Story of a Norfolk Village by Anne Carter published 1987, reprinted 1991 ISBN 1 873495 00 5

[edit] References

• ^  Ordnance Survey (2005). OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads. ISBN 0-319-23769-9.
• ^  Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005.

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