- Woodbastwick
Woodbastwick is a
village andcivil parish in the Englishcounty ofNorfolk . It is located on theRiver Bure betweenCockshoot Broad andSalhouse Broad , withinThe Broads National Park and close toBure Marshes NNR (National Nature Reserve ). The city ofNorwich lies 10 km to the south-east. [Ordnance Survey (2005). "OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads". ISBN 0-319-23769-9.]The village name relates to bast, a pliable substance found under the bark of the lime tree. Danish and Saxon invaders used bast as a form of binding to tie leggings and other items. As a consequence, Woodbastwick's
village sign shows two invaders tying their leggings.Woodbastwick is an attractive village with thatched houses set around a village green, and the church of St Fabian & St Sebastian, also thatched. The Woodforde Broadland Brewery is located in the village and produces
cask ale s such as "Wherry Bitter", "Nelson's Revenge", "Norfolk Nog", "Headcracker" and "Norfolk Nips', (brewed to celebrate the ten years anniversary of the newsletter of the Norwich & Norfolk branch of CAMRA, it was the idea of Sarah & Rodney Dent, then editors of this magazine and was devised with Ray Ashworth (then director of the brewery) at one of the Bystanders Beer Festivals in Norwich. Norfolk Nips is a remake of the original Steward & Pattesons brew) which are also availablebottle conditioned .The civil parish has an area of 19.04 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 362 in 157 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of
Broadland . [Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). " [http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes] ". RetrievedDecember 2 ,2005 .]References
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* [http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/w/woodbastwick/ Information from Genuki Norfolk] on Woodbastwick.
* [http://www.norfolkcoast.co.uk/location_norfolk/vp_woodbastwick.htm NorfolkCoast.co.uk] on Woodbastwick.
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