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Flordon is both a civil parish and a village in South Norfolk, England.

Flordon
St Michael's church, Flordon
Flordon Location within Norfolk
Area	3.74 km2 (1.44 sq mi)
Population	281 (2011)
• Density	75/km2 (190/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TM189969
Civil parish	Flordon
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR15
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Norfolk 52.52641°N 1.22648°E / 52.52641; 1.22648

The village's name means 'Floor/pavement hill'. The significance of the 'flor' unknown, although it likely would be a name, there are suggestions that it may have referred to a Roman mosaic floor or pavement, although there is no local Roman settlements, this is very unlikely.

Parish data

The parish of Flordon covers an area of 3.74 km² (1.44 sq mi) and had a population of 263 in 110 households at the 2001 census,[1] the population increasing to 281 at the 2011 Census.[2] This is not an especially significant increase from the 1881 census at which time 178 people were living there.

Village data

The village borders, in the north from west to east, Wreningham, Bracon Ash and Newton Flotman. In the south, it borders Hapton and Tasburgh. The village contains, amongst other things, protected common land on which can be found a spring and rare plants ^{[citation needed]} Flordon Hall is also in the vicinity.

Until 1920, Flordon had a mill on the river Tas It also had a station on the Great Eastern Main Line. Taswood Lakes lie just to the east of the village.

A mile east of Flordon is Rainthorpe Hall a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, owned at one time by Frederick Walpole, MP for North Norfolk.[3]

Businesses

Tas Valley Mushrooms Ltd, ABS (Anglia boiler services) Redwings horse sanctuary /(hapton )

Neighbours

Nearby villages include Hapton, Newton Flotman, Mulbarton, and Tasburgh and Long Stratton.

Notes

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Flordon

External links

• GENUKI entry for Flordon, Norfolk

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