Fairstead, Norfolk

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The Fairstead Estate is a suburb of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. The population of Fairstead ward of King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough at the 2011 Census was 6,479. [1]

Facilities

Fairstead has two schools, Fairstead Community Primary School, a very large primary school, and Churchill Park School, which was completed in 2010 and is a merger of Alderman Jackson and Ethel Tipple Schools.

Fairstead has its own minor shopping zone, called Centre Point, with a doctor's surgery, a chemist,Morrisons, a chip chop and a charity shop. The Fairstead Community Centre is also situation at the Centre Point. It offers a Main Hall, a small car park (as is getting new houses built on) [2] At the other end of the estate there is a convenience store.

The pub has been knocked down as the residents complained of it being an eyesore this was done through the Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk and West Norfolk police safer neighbourhood teams. This has since been made into flats.

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References

  1. "Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  2. "Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk" . Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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