Neatishead
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Neatishead (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell)<ref>G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 108: "[This] is the traditional village pronunciation. [NEET-is-hed] is used by Service personnel for the local R.A.F. Station."</ref> is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some Template:Convert north-east of the city of Norwich, within The Norfolk Broads and to the west of Barton Broad. Access to Neatishead from the broad is by way of Limekiln Dyke, a narrow channel leading off the broad.<ref>Ordnance Survey (2005). OS Explorer Map OL40 – The Broads. Template:ISBN.</ref>
The village's name origin is uncertain 'Vassal's household' or perhaps, 'Snaet's household'.Template:Citation needed
The civil parish has an area of Template:Convert and in the 2001 census had a population of 537 in 235 households, the population increasing to 565 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.<ref>Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 2 December 2005.</ref>
It is well known due to the nearby RAF Neatishead radar station.Template:Citation needed
ReferencesEdit
Template:Reflist http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Neatishead
External linksEdit
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- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Neatishead.