Gooderstone is a village situated in the

Breckland Breckland in Norfolk and Suffolk is a 39,433 hectare Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. The SPA partly overlaps the 7,544 hectare Breckland Special Area of Conservation. As a la ...

District of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

and covers an area of with an estimated population of 390 in 2007, reducing to 363 at the 2011 Census. It lies south west from

Swaffham Swaffham () is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District and English county of Norfolk. It is situated east of King's Lynn and west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 6,9 ...

. The villages name means "Guthere's farm/settlement". Gooderstone is served by St George's Church in the Benefice of

Cockley Cley Cockley Cley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village covers an area of and falls within the district of Breckland. History The village's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a ...

. Gooderstone Primary School also serves the villages of Foulden and

Oxborough Oxborough is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, well known for its church and manor house Oxburgh Hall. It covers an area of and had a population of 240 in 106 households in the 2001 census, reducing to a population ...

. Gooderstone Water Gardens and Nature Trail is open daily throughout the year.

References

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Gooderstone {{authority control Villages in Norfolk Breckland District Civil parishes in Norfolk