Postwick with Witton

Coordinates: 52°37′30″N 1°24′00″E / 52.625°N 1.4°E / 52.625; 1.4

Postwick with Witton
Postwick with Witton shown within Norfolk
Area	3.2 sq mi (8.29 km²)
Population	323
- Density	101/sq mi (39/km²)
OS grid reference	TG3008
Parish	Postwick with Witton
District	Broadland
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR13
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
European Parliament	East of England
List of places: UK • England • Norfolk

Postwick with Witton is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, comprising the two nearby villages of Postwick and Witton. Postwick is some 4+¹⁄₂ miles (7.2 km) east of the city of Norwich, just south of the eastern end of the A47 Norwich southern bypass. Witton is 1+³⁄₄ miles (2.8 km) to the north-east, north of the A47.^[1]

The civil parish has an area of 8.29 km² (3.20 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 323 in 128 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland.^[1] Although the Wherry Lines rail line passes through Postwick, there is no station. In the west of the parish at the junction of the A47 and A1042 is Postwick Park and Ride, one of six such sites surrounding Norwich. A ferry once operated on the River Yare between Postwick and Surlingham, it ceased c1939 following a collision with a coaster ^[2]

External links

• Postwick with Witton page on Broadland website
• Postwick on Martin & Marie Edwards' web-pages
• Map sources for Postwick.
• Map sources for Witton.
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Postwick.
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Witton.
• All Saints, Postwick
• Postwick Park and Ride

Further reading

• Carter, Anne (1987, reprinted 1991). POSTWICK - The Story of a Norfolk Village. ISBN 1 873495 00 5. 

Notes

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