Gorefield | |
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Location within Cambridgeshire | |
Population | 1,184 (2011) |
OS grid reference | TF4111 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Wisbech |
Postcode district | PE13 |
Dialling code | 01945 |
Police | Cambridgeshire |
Fire | Cambridgeshire |
Ambulance | East of England |
Gorefield is a village and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England.
At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 1,064 people,[1] increasing to 1,184 at the 2011 census.[2]
The name Gorefield first appears in a manuscript from 1190. Gorefield as a developing village dates to the 19th and 20th centuries.[citation needed] The Church of St Paul was built in 1870 at a cost of £2,000 with the formation of the ecclesiastical parish of Gorefield from Leverington under the Leverington Rectory Act.[3][4]
In 2004, Gorefield won the Fenland District Award in the Cambridgeshire Village of the Year contest.[citation needed]