Rollesby is a village and
civil parish
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in the
English
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county
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of
Norfolk
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. It is situated on the
A149 road, adjacent to Rollesby Broad and Ormesby Broad, about north-west of the town of
Great Yarmouth and east of the city of
Norwich
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.
[Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. .]
The villages name means 'Hrolfr's farm/settlement'.
The civil parish has an area of and in the
2001 census had a population of 995 in 408 households, the population reducing at the 2011 Census to 946.
For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the
district
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of
Great Yarmouth.
[Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). ]
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
''. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
The church of Rollesby St George is one of 124 existing
round-tower churches in
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 is a Grade II* listed building.
Notes
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Rollesby
External links
.
Information from Genuki Norfolkon Rollesby.
St George's on the European Round Tower Churches website
Villages in Norfolk
Borough of Great Yarmouth
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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