Rollesby is a village and

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in the

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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

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and east of the city of

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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

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.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 church Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshi ...

es in

and is a Grade II* listed building.

Notes

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Rollesby

External links

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Information from Genuki Norfolk
on Rollesby.
St George's on the European Round Tower Churches website
Villages in Norfolk Borough of Great Yarmouth Civil parishes in Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub