Sedgeford | |
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Magazine, the old gunpowder store at Sedgeford | |
Location within Norfolk | |
Area | 6.6 sq mi (17 km2) |
Population | 613 (2011) |
• Density | 93/sq mi (36/km2) |
OS grid reference | TF712366 |
• London | 100 mi (160 km) |
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District | |
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Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | HUNSTANTON |
Postcode district | PE36 |
Police | Norfolk |
Fire | Norfolk |
Ambulance | East of England |
Sedgeford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about 5 miles south of the North Sea and 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the Wash. It is 36 miles northwest of Norwich.
Its area of 6.6 square miles (17 km2) had a population, including Fring, of 613 at the 2011 Census. It was estimated to have a population of 601 in 2019.[1] It belongs to the local governance of King's Lynn and West Norfolk district. It lies in a farming valley with main crops of barley, wheat and sugar beet, in a belt of chalk with the small Docking River running through.