Brockdish
Sign in to saveBrockdish is a village and civil parish in the south of the English county of Norfolk. It is south-west of Harleston and south of Norwich. The parish includes Thorpe Abbotts. The River Waveney, which marks the county border with Suffolk, is the southern boundary of the parish, with Brockdish the highest point where the river is navigable by small watercraft.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TM224794
- UK place.official_name
- Brockdish
- UK place.population
- 699
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 9.15
- UK place.shire_district
- South Norfolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Norfolk
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.civil_parish
- Brockdish
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Waveney Valley
- UK place.postcode_district
- IP21
- UK place.postcode_area
- IP
- UK place.post_town
- DISS
- UK place.dial_code
- 01379
- UK place.static_image_name
- St.Peter And St.Paul Brockdish - geograph.org.uk - 295413.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
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Brockdish is a village and civil parish in the south of the English county of Norfolk. It is south-west of Harleston and south of Norwich. The parish includes Thorpe Abbotts. The River Waveney, which marks the county border with Suffolk, is the southern boundary of the parish, with Brockdish the highest point where the river is navigable by small watercraft.
In the Domesday Book, Brockdish is recorded as a settlement of 39 households in the hundred of Earsham. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of William the Conqueror and Bury St Edmunds Abbey.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brockdish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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