Harling is a
civil parish in the
English county
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of
Norfolk.
It covers an area of and had a population of 2,201 in 932 households at the
2001 census,
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009 reducing to a population of 2,142 in 941 households at the 2011 census.
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of 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 ...
.
The principal settlement in the parish is the village of East Harling
East Harling is a village in the England, English county of Norfolk. The village forms the principal settlement in the civil parish of Harling, Norfolk, Harling, and is located east of Thetford and south-west of the city of NorwichOrdnance Surv ...
, other settlements include Harling Road centred on Harling Road railway station, Middle Harling and West Harling.
Henry Nicholas Ridley, the botanist, geologist and naturalist who was instrumental in promoting rubber trees in the Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...
, was born in the village of West Harling.
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Civil parishes in Norfolk
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