Scole
Village in Norfolk, England
Scole (/ˈskoʊl/) is a village on the Norfolk, Suffolk border in England. It is 19 miles south of Norwich and lay on the old Roman road to Venta Icenorum, which was the main road until it was bypassed with a dual carriageway. It covers an area of 14.31 km2 (5.53 sq mi) and had a population of 1,339 in 563 households at the 2001 census; the population had increased to 1,367 at the 2011 Census.
It lies on the north bank of the River Waveney.
The parish church of St Andrew was rebuilt in the 1960s after being destroyed in an arson attack in 1963. There is an east window by Patrick Reyntiens dating from 1963. The stump of a windmill has been converted to residential use.
Scole is the birthplace of William Gooderham (1790) and Ezekiel Gooderham (1794), founders of the Gooderham and Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada, later to be the largest in the British Empire.
01Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches east to Needham and at the 2011 Census had a total population of 2,357.
02Climate
| Climate data for Scole, (1991-2020 normals, extremes 1971-1980) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.2 (57.6) |
15.0 (59.0) |
19.1 (66.4) |
22.9 (73.2) |
26.9 (80.4) |
34.3 (93.7) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.9 (91.2) |
29.0 (84.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
17.0 (62.6) |
15.8 (60.4) |
34.3 (93.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.2 (45.0) |
8.0 (46.4) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.6 (63.7) |
20.8 (69.4) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.7 (72.9) |
19.7 (67.5) |
15.0 (59.0) |
10.7 (51.3) |
7.8 (46.0) |
14.8 (58.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.4 (39.9) |
4.8 (40.6) |
6.7 (44.1) |
9.4 (48.9) |
12.7 (54.9) |
15.5 (59.9) |
17.4 (63.3) |
17.4 (63.3) |
14.9 (58.8) |
11.3 (52.3) |
7.4 (45.3) |
5.0 (41.0) |
10.6 (51.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 1.5 (34.7) |
1.5 (34.7) |
2.6 (36.7) |
4.7 (40.5) |
7.7 (45.9) |
10.2 (50.4) |
11.9 (53.4) |
12.0 (53.6) |
10.0 (50.0) |
7.5 (45.5) |
4.0 (39.2) |
2.2 (36.0) |
6.3 (43.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −13.3 (8.1) |
−12.0 (10.4) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
1.7 (35.1) |
3.7 (38.7) |
4.0 (39.2) |
0.8 (33.4) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−9.7 (14.5) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 52.3 (2.06) |
44.5 (1.75) |
44.6 (1.76) |
37.9 (1.49) |
38.0 (1.50) |
57.1 (2.25) |
45.3 (1.78) |
58.1 (2.29) |
46.1 (1.81) |
66.4 (2.61) |
78.2 (3.08) |
57.8 (2.28) |
626.2 (24.65) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 11.4 | 8.3 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 8.3 | 9.0 | 9.7 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 10.5 | 11.7 | 10.5 | 115.5 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 64.4 | 71.4 | 118.3 | 175.0 | 217.2 | 207.2 | 217.5 | 200.3 | 162.3 | 110.8 | 68.4 | 62.3 | 1,675.3 |
| Source 1: Met Office (precipitation days 1981-2010) | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Starlings Roost Weather | |||||||||||||
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