Scole () is a village on the
Norfolk
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–
Suffolk border in
England
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. It is 19 miles south of
Norwich
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and lay on the old Roman road to
Venta Icenorum
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, which was the main road until it was bypassed with a dual carriageway. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,339 in 563 households at the
2001 census; the population had increased to 1,367 at the 2011 Census.
It lies on the north bank of the
River Waveney
The River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The "ey" part of the name means "river" thus the name is tautological.
Course
The source of the River Wavene ...
.
The parish church of St Andrew was rebuilt in the 1960s after a fire raiser had burnt it. There is an east window by
Patrick Reyntiens
Nicholas Patrick Reyntiens OBE (; 11 December 1925 – 25 October 2021) was a British stained-glass artist, described as "the leading practitioner of stained glass in this country."
Personal life
Reyntiens was born in December 1925 at 68 Ca ...
, 1963.
Scole is the birthplace of
William Gooderham (1792) and
Ezekiel Gooderham
Ezekiel (; he, יְחֶזְקֵאל ''Yəḥezqēʾl'' ; in the Septuagint written in grc-koi, Ἰεζεκιήλ ) is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.
In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ezekiel is acknow ...
(1794), founders of the Gooderham and Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada, later to be the largest in the British Empire.
Governance
An
electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches east to
Needham and at the 2011 Census had a total population of 2,357.
See also
*
Scole Experiment
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, a series of mediumistic séances which took place in the village
Notes
References
Office for National Statistics, 2001. Census information for Scole
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Scole
External links
Scole Parish website
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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