Place:Herringfleet, Suffolk, England

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NameHerringfleet
TypeVillage
Located inSuffolk, England
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Herringfleet is a place and former civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is located north-west of Lowestoft in the East Suffolk district. The parish was combined with Somerleyton and Ashby to create the parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet in 1987.

The western edge of Herringfleet is marked by the River Waveney. Prior to local government reorganisation in 1974, the former parish included the village of St Olaves to the north. This was combined with the parish of Fritton and the new parish of Fritton and St Olaves transferred to the county of Norfolk. Previously the entire area south and east of the Waveney was part of Suffolk.[1]

Prior to the loss of St Olaves, the population of the former parish was 262 at the 1961 United Kingdom census.[1] At the 1981 census it was 58 and the current population of Herringfleet is estimated to be around 50.[1][2] There is no village centre, with the population spread across a number of scattered farms and small settlements. Much of the land within the area of the former parish is owned by the Somerleyton Estate.[2]

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