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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St Olaves like this:
OLAVES (St.)-JUNCTION, a railway station on the S E border of Norfolk; at the intersection of the railway from Ipswich to Yarmouth with the railway from Lowestoft to Norwich, adjacent to the river Waveney, 6½ miles S W of Yarmouth. It takes its name from an ancientpriory, now a ruin, on a neighbouring spot.
St Olaves is now part of GREAT YARMOUTH District. Click here for graphs and data of how GREAT YARMOUTH has changed over two centuries. For statistics about St Olaves itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of St Olaves, in Great Yarmouth and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25222
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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