scole

{{Short description|Village in Norfolk, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|52.366|1.156|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = TM149789

| official_name = Scole

| population = 1367

| area_total_km2 = 14.31

| shire_district = South Norfolk

| shire_county = Norfolk

| region = East of England

| civil_parish = Scole

| constituency_westminster =

| postcode_district = IP21

| postcode_area = IP

| post_town = DISS

| dial_code = 01362

| london_distance =

|static_image = St Andrew's Church, Scole, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 814523.jpg

|static_image_width = 240px

|static_image_caption= St Andrew's Church, Scole

}}

Scole ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|k|oʊ|l|}}{{Cite web|last=Paranormal Investigation UK|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBnuVxaGcc&t=331s|title=The Scole Experiment - The {{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|Documentry}}|date=2018-07-02|access-date=2022-04-05|website=YouTube}}) is a village on the Norfolk–Suffolk border in England. It is 19 miles south of Norwich and lay on the old Roman road to Venta Icenorum, which was the main road until it was bypassed with a dual carriageway. It covers an area of {{convert|14.31|km2|abbr=on}} and had a population of 1,339 in 563 households at the 2001 census;{{cite web|url=http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/democracy/Scole_parish.asp|title=Scole parish information|publisher=South Norfolk Council|date=17 May 2007|access-date=20 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023090718/http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/democracy/scole_parish.asp|archive-date=23 October 2010}} the population had increased to 1,367 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128246&c=Scole&d=16&e=62&g=6450612&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1441797035475&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|access-date=9 September 2015}}

It lies on the north bank of the River Waveney.

The parish church of St Andrew was rebuilt in the 1960s after being destroyed in an arson attack in 1963. There is an east window by Patrick Reyntiens dating from 1963.Betjeman, John, ed. (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South. London: Collins; p. 317

Scole is the birthplace of William Gooderham (1790) and Ezekiel Gooderham (1794), founders of the Gooderham and Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada, later to be the largest in the British Empire.