Place:Somerleyton Ashby and Herringfleet, Suffolk, England

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Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet is a [[wikipedia:civil parish|civil parish] in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of [[Place:Lowestoft, Suffolk, England|Lowestoft and the same distance southwest of Great Yarmouth and is in the East Suffolk district. The parish is made up of the villages of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet and at the 2011 United Kingdom census had a population of 427.

The three villages were separate parishes until 1987 when they were combined into the current parish.

The parish is on the county border with Norfolk, with the western border formed by the River Waveney and the north by Fritton Decoy. It borders the Suffolk parishes of Blundeston and Lound and the Norfolk parishes of Burgh St. Peter, Wheatacre, Aldeby and Haddiscoe across the Waveney and the parishes of Fritton and St. Olaves and Belton with Browston to the north.

The village of St Olaves was formerly part of the parish of Herringfleet until local government reorganisation in 1974 redrew the county boundary. Prior to this the entire area south and east of the Waveney, including Fritton and the three parishes which make up the modern parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, was part of Suffolk.