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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Southtown like this:
SOUTHTOWN, or Little Yarmouth, a hamlet in Little Gorleston parish, Suffolk; on the river Yare, opposite Great Yarmouth, and within Yarmouth borough. Real property, £9,386. Pop. in 1851, 1,412; in 1861, 1,714. Houses, 357. It was anciently a separate parish; was annexed, in 1861, to Great Yarmouth borough; and still ranks ecclesiastically as a rectory, annexed to Gorleston.
Southtown is now part of GREAT YARMOUTH District. Click here for graphs and data of how GREAT YARMOUTH has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Southtown itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Southtown, in Great Yarmouth and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21085
Date accessed: 17th February 2026
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