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It is halfway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth and has the only bridge across the Bure between Wroxham and Great Yarmouth.

The name "Acle" means "in the lea of the oaks", i.e. a clearing in an oak forest. In Tudor times, hundreds of oaks were felled here to built ships for Elizabeth I's war ships.

In Roman times, Acle was a port at the head of a large estuary named Gariensis.

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