The villages name means 'Skuli's farm/settlement' Scoulton lies on the main road between Norwich and the market town of Watton.

Increasingly a dormitory for workers in Norwich's insurance and other service industries, it was traditionally agricultural, relying particularly on the production of sugar beet and on pig farming.

[2] The population is split between two main areas of settlement and a number of small, isolated farms.

[3] Scoulton is known for its artificial and heavily wooded lake or "mere", which was the product of extensive flint quarrying and a breeding ground of the black-headed gull.

[4] The harvested eggs formed the basis of a now obsolete dish known as Scoulton Pie.