Woodbastwick
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Woodbastwick (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located on the River Bure between Cockshoot Broad and Salhouse Broad, within The Broads and close to Bure Marshes NNR (national nature reserve). The city of Norwich lies Template:Convert to the south-west.<ref>Ordnance Survey (2005). OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads. Template:ISBN.</ref> The civil parish also includes the villages of Ranworth and Panxworth.
The village name relates to bast, a pliable substance found under the bark of the lime tree. Danish and Saxon invaders used bast as a form of binding to tie leggings and other items. As a consequence, Woodbastwick's village sign shows two invaders tying their leggings.
The village contains thatched houses set around a village green, and the church of St Fabian & St Sebastian, also thatched. The Woodforde Broadland Brewery is located in the village and produces cask ales such as Wherry Bitter, Nelson's Revenge, Norfolk Nog and Headcracker.
The civil parish has an area of Template:Convert and in the 2001 census had a population of 362 in 157 households, increasing to a population of 399 in 168 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland.<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> Woodbastwick Hall is the seat of the Cator family.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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- Woodbastwick Church and the Broadside Benefice Parishes
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Woodbastwick.
- NorfolkCoast.co.uk on Woodbastwick.