Strumpshaw

Strumpshaw
Norfolk
File:St Peter, Strumpshaw, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 1247274.jpg St Peter’s Church, Strumpshaw
Location
Grid reference:	TG350077
Location:	52°37’2"N, 1°28’13"E
Data
Population:	634  (2011)
Post town:	Norwich
Postcode:	NR13
Dialling code:	01603
Local Government
Council:	Broadland

Strumpshaw is a village in Norfolk. It is located on the northern bank of the River Yare around six miles south-east of Norwich. The parish had a population of 634 in 261 households at the 2011 Census.

The village's name means 'stump wood'.

Strumpshaw is a little distance from the river, on the slopes of Strumpshaw Hill, the highest area of land in the Norfolk Broads. Because of its elevation, Strumpshaw hosted, from the late 1790s through to the mid-1810s, a repeater station in the shutter telegraph chain linking the Admiralty in London with Great Yarmouth. The Wherry Lines railway line running between Norwich and Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft runs through the parish. Trains call at Buckenham railway station at weekends only.

Two small villages, Buckenham and Hassingham, formerly both parishes in their own right, are found within the civil parish of Strumpshaw.

Strumpshaw Hall

Strumpshaw Hall lies closer to the river, next to the railway line. It is the home of the Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum, with a collection of traction engines and steam rollers. It also has a showman's engine, a steam wagon and a narrow-gauge railway with a Simplex diesel disguised as a steam engine.

Natural environment

The Strumpshaw Fen RSPB reserve is operated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It caters for up to 20,000 visitors annually. It is bordered to the east by Buckenham Marshes RSPB reserve and lies within the Mid-Yare National Nature Reserve and Yare Broads and Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Strumpshaw)

References

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