Rackheath

Rackheath is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and is roughly 6 miles from Norwich city centre. It covers an area of 7.52 km2 and had a population of 1,551 in 625 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 1,972 in 762 households at the 2011 Census.
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland. It is the site of a proposed new eco-town.

The A1151 Norwich to Wroxham Road runs through the parish dividing it in two. There is a small settlement near the 14th century listed church of All Saints to the north, and the now much larger settlement of New Rackheath to the south. All Saints church has a 12th-century canonical sundial on the south wall. New Rackheath contains the modern Holy Trinity Church as well as the 1930s art deco style Sole and Heel public house, which is situated in the part of the village known locally as Slipper Bottom . Rackheath's other pubs are the Racecourse Inn, originally the Washington Hotel, on Salhouse Road; and the Green Man, on the Wroxham Road, which dates from before 1826 and closed in November 2011.

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