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Dersingham

Village in Norfolk, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dersingham
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Dersingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Dersingham is located 7.3 miles (11.7 km) north-east of King's Lynn and 37 miles (60 km) north-west of Norwich.

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History

Dersingham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the village or settlement of Deorsige's people.[1]

In the Domesday Book, Dersingham is listed as a settlement of 115 households in the hundred of Freebridge. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Eudo, son of Spirewic and Peter de Valognes.[2]

In 1984, a horde of silver shillings with a silver cup was discovered in Dersingham which date from the Tudor and Stuart eras.[3]

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Geography

According to the 2021 census, Dersingham has a population of 4,755 people which shows an increase from the 4,640 people listed in the 2011 census.[4]

Dersingham is located along the A149, between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth.

The nearby Dersingham Bog National Nature Reserve, managed by Natural England (formerly English Nature), contains habitats ranging from marshland to heathland and woodland. Birds such as the redpoll, crossbill, long-eared owl, tree pipit, sparrowhawk and nightjar can be found there.[5]

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St Nicholas' Church

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John Sell Cotman, chest in Dersingham Church (1815)

Dersingham's parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and dates from the 14th century. St Nicholas' is located on Church Lane and has been a Grade I listed building since 1953.[6]

St Nicholas' holds a good example of a 14th-century chancel with stained glass depicting Jesus, Saint Agnes and Saint Luke installed by James Powell and Sons and Charles Eamer Kempe in the early 20th century. The wooden parish chest, dating from the middle of the 14th century, is carved elaborately with the symbols of the four Evangelists; on the lid, there is part of an inscription.[7]

Sandringham House

Sandringham House, a favoured royal residence of Queen Elizabeth II and several of her predecessors, lies just to the south of Dersingham in the parish of Sandringham. The Queen visited Dersingham Infant School to mark her Diamond Jubilee in February 2012.[8]

Notable residents

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Governance

Dersingham is an electoral ward for local elections and is part of the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is North West Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative's James Wild MP since 2010.

War memorial

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Dersingham War Memorial is a stone-brick obelisk on Station Road which was unveiled in 1923 and renovated in 2008.[9] The memorial lists the following names for the First World War:[10][11]

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And, Thomas Nurse.

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References

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