Official Name: | Fritton and St Olaves |
Country: | England |
Region: | East of England |
Static Image Name: | St Edmund's church - geograph.org.uk - 664872.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St Edmund's church, Fritton |
Area Total Km2: | 7.63 |
Population: | 524 |
Population Ref: | (2011) |
Os Grid Reference: | TM464997 |
Coordinates: | 52.541°N 1.633°W |
Post Town: | Great Yarmouth |
Postcode Area: | NR |
Postcode District: | NR31 |
Dial Code: | 01493 |
Constituency Westminster: | Great Yarmouth |
Shire District: | Great Yarmouth |
Shire County: | Norfolk |
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Fritton and St Olaves is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish comprises the villages of Fritton and St. Olaves, together with the surrounding rural area.[1]
The civil parish has an area of 7.63km2 and in the 2001 census had a population of 543 in 236 households, the population reducing to 524 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish today falls within the district of Great Yarmouth. Prior to the 1974 reorganisation of counties in England the entire area of the parish was part of the Lothingland Rural District of Suffolk, with the St Olaves portion of the parish of Herringfleet and Fritton as a separate parish.[2]