Wood Norton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located east of Fakenham and north-west of Norwich.Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 238 - East Dereham & Aylsham. .Ordnance Survey (2002). OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central. .
The village's name means "North farm/settlement". "Wood" distinguishes it from Pudding Norton.
The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 221 in 94 households, reducing slightly to 217 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes . Retrieved 2 December 2005. For Westminster elections to the House of Commons, Wood Norton lies within the Broadland constituency.
People The original Blue Stocking, Benjamin Stillingfleet was born here where his father Edward Stillingfleet was rector.I. D. Hughes, ‘Stillingfleet, Benjamin (1702–1771)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 26 Feb 2010
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NorfolkCoast.co.uk on Wood Norton.