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Hopton-on-Sea
Englandvillage
Hopton-on-Sea
Total population
2,970
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Overview
Hopton-on-Sea is a village, civil parish and seaside resort on the coast of East Anglia, in the Great Yarmouth district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located 4 miles (6 km) south of Great Yarmouth and 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Lowestoft.
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History
The village's name means "Farm/settlement in enclosed spot"; it is perhaps referring to the promontory jutting into marsh. The earliest human activity in the parish dates to the Palaeolithic era, with the discovery of flint tools. There have also been artefacts found from the Bronze Age and Roman era in the area. The oldest building in the parish is the ruin of St Margaret's church, built in the 14th century; it burned down in 1865. A new church of the same name was built the following year in Early English style on a new site,
Geography
The village is sited on the East Anglia coast, beside the North Sea; it has a wide sandy beach, Hopton-on-Sea Beach, which runs by grassy cliffs. The beach suffers from coastal erosion and, as of 2016, sand levels have dropped by 10 ft in the last five years. The erosion has led to a project to replace the old wooden groynes, with ones made of rock and the construction of a seawall. These defences are estimated to protect the area for up to a century. The civil parish was, until 1974, in the county of East Suffolk. It has an area of and, in the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,970 in 1,325 households. For local government, the parish falls within the district of Great Yarmouth.
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Official Identifiers
ONS — UK Office for National Statistics
- ONS code
- E04006271
- Population (Wikidata)
- 2,706
- Wikidata
- Q2980788
api.postcodes.io / OS Open Names
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • ONS / OS Open Names — UK official place gazetteer, via api.postcodes.io (OS code, local type, county/unitary, district/borough, region)
- • ONS — UK Office for National Statistics — api.postcodes.io / OS Open Names