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Horsford

Horsford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

Horsford is located 6.4 miles (10.3 km) south of Aylsham and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Norwich.

Horsford's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for horse ford.

In the Domesday Book, Horsford is listed as a settlement of 33 households hundred of Taverham. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of Robert Malet.

Horsford Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle built by Robert Malet immediately after the Norman Conquest. Horsford Castle has been abandoned since the Fifteenth Century and is, today, a scheduled monument.

Holt Road, north of the village, is supposedly haunted by a highwayman.

According to the 2021 census, Horsford has a population of 4,937 people which shows an increase from the 4,163 people recorded in the 2011 census.

Horsford Woods is a 306 acres (124 ha) site of woodland which is cared for by the Woodland Trust. The woods are the habitat of the silver-studded blue butterfly.

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