Gorefield
Gorefield is a village and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England.
| Gorefield | |
|---|---|
  Gorefield Location within Cambridgeshire | |
| Population | 1,184 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | TF4111 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Wisbech |
| Postcode district | PE13 |
| Dialling code | 01945 |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
Gorefield, St Paul's Church
At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 1,064 people,[1] increasing to 1,184 at the 2011 Census.[2]
While the name Gorefield first appears in a manuscript from 1190, the village has no visible link to its pre-Victorian past. Gorefield as a developing village dates to the 19th and 20th centuries. The Church of St Paul was built in 1870 at a cost of £2,000 with the formation of the ecclesiastical parish of Gorefield from Leverington under the Leverington Rectory Act.[3][4]
In 2004, Gorefield won the Fenland District Award in the Cambridgeshire Village of the Year contest.
References
- Office for National Statistics: Gorefield CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 12 December 2009
- "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- F.J.Gardiner (1898). History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood.
- "Norfolk Chronicle". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
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