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Acle
TitleAcle
CountyNorfolk
CoordinatesLat : 52.6333333 Lon : 1.55
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Description Incorrect Description? Tell Us!Acle is a small market town on the River Bure in Norfolk within The Broads National Park. It is located halfway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth and has the only bridge across the River Bure between Wroxham and Great Yarmouth.Ordnance Survey (2005). OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads. ISBN 0-319-23769-9.

The civil parish has an area of 9.46 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 2732 in 1214 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the area of the district of Broadland.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001. "". Retrieved December 2, 2005.

The name "Acle" means "in the lea of the oaks", that is, a clearing in an oak forest. In Tudor times, hundreds of oaks were felled here for timber to construct Elizabeth I's war ships.

In Roman times, Acle was a port at the head of a large estuary named Gariensis. Acle is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and in 1253 it was granted a market. The livestock and local farmers' market persisted into the 1970s, as did a nearby auction site; the latter is now a new housing estate and the former is part-occupied by a branch of Budgens, with the other part remaining a "market", although essentially for tourist purposes: no livestock is now bought or sold there. In 1382, Acle received the right for a "turbary", that is, the right to dig peat. Acle still has a boatyard and Boat Dyke, and pleasant walks along the Bure to Upton and beyond are possible.

Acle railway station, which was built in 1883, lies on the Wherry Line from Norwich to Great Yarmouth. In 1892 a foundry was constructed that specialised in building windpumps for land drainage, including the very last windpump built for the Broads, at Ash Tree Farm. The three-mile?7.1m dual-carriageway A47 bypass opened in March 1989; local campaigners are still pressing for the dualling of the Acle Straight, the portion of the A47 running from Acle to Great Yarmouth, which has a relatively high accident rate and is held by many locals to be a dangerous road. Since the turn of the century, a walkway running from the station to the Boat Dyke has been constructed by local volunteers; this offers an opportunity to view indigenous flora, some of which are rare.

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