Swafield

Swafield is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 16.4 miles north north east of Norwich, 10.1 miles south south East of Cromer and 133 miles north-east of London. The village lies 1.4 miles north of the town of North Walsham. The village sits astride the B1145 Kings Lynn to Mundesley road that dissects North Norfolk west to east. The nearest railway station is at North Walsham for the Bittern Line which runs between Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. The parish had in 2001 census, a population of 273, including Bradfield and increasing to 315 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.
The name Swafield possibly originates from open land with a track from the Anglo Saxon words swaeth, meaning track, and feld, meaning field, often a forest clearing. The former is the origin of swath or swathe, the latter of field. The name may also mean therefore, open land with swathes, the latter being areas of cut, laying corn.

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