Alderford

Alderford
St John the Baptist, Alderford
Alderford Location within Norfolk
Area	1.80 km2 (0.69 sq mi)
OS grid reference	TG123188
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR9
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Norfolk 52°43′32″N 1°08′37″E / 52.725600°N 1.143483°E / 52.725600; 1.143483

Alderford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about ten miles (16 km) north-west of Norwich.

The name 'Alderford' derives from the Old English meaning 'alder-tree ford'.^{[citation needed]}

The civil parish has an area of 1.80 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 43 in 16 households. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of Swannington. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the area of the district of Broadland.^[1]

St John the Baptist Church holds a memorial to the following soldier who died during the Second World War:

• Sergeant Leslie E. Edwards (1923–1943), Royal Air Force Reserve

• ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001. Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.

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

• Media related to Alderford at Wikimedia Commons
• Alderford in the Domesday Book

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