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Fairstead, Norfolk

Coordinates: 52°45′10″N 0°26′08″E / 52.752666°N 0.435651°E / 52.752666; 0.435651
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Green space in Fairstead
Houses in Fairstead

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

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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.

References

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  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.

52°45′10″N 0°26′08″E / 52.752666°N 0.435651°E / 52.752666; 0.435651