Somerleyton
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Somerleyton ( ) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, in the East Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of Lowestoft and south-west of Great Yarmouth. The village is closely associated with Somerleyton Hall and was largely rebuilt as a model village in the 19th century at the direction of Samuel Morton Peto. The parish was combined with Herringfleet and Ashby to create the parish of "Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet" on 1 April 1987. This town is the birthplace of the Hovercraft.
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Place details
- Locality
- East Suffolk
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet
- Population
- 300
- Image
- Somerleyton Church - geograph.org.uk - 269284.jpg
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- Somerleyton
- OS grid reference
- TM4897
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Somerleyton Hall
- Culture and community
- Church of St Mary
- In literature and television
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Somerleyton ( ) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, in the East Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of Lowestoft and south-west of Great Yarmouth. The village is closely associated with Somerleyton Hall and was largely rebuilt as a model village in the 19th century at the direction of Samuel Morton Peto. The parish was combined with Herringfleet and Ashby to create the parish of "Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet" on 1 April 1987. This town is the birthplace of the Hovercraft.
The village is on the edge of The Broads national park with the River Waveney forming the western boundary of the former parish. This forms the county border with Norfolk and the Suffolk village of Blundeston is to the east. The village has a population of around 300.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Somerleyton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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