Bressingham

Bressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 15.77 km2 (6.09 sq mi) and had a population of 751 in 305 households as of the 2001 census,[1] the population increasing to 882 at the 2011 Census.

This article is about the village in Norfolk. For the steam museum and garden centre, see Bressingham Steam & Gardens.

Bressingham

St John the Baptist, Bressingham
Bressingham
Location within Norfolk
Area15.77 km2 (6.09 sq mi)
Population882 (2011)
• Density56/km2 (150/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTM0780
Civil parish
  • Bressingham
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDISS
Postcode districtIP22
PoliceNorfolk
FireNorfolk
AmbulanceEast of England

History

The name Bressingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin and refers to the homestead of Briosa's people.[2]

This town of Bressingham was given by Osulph le Sire, and the lady Laverine, or Leofrine, his wife, to the abbey of St. Edmund's in Bury in about 963. By the time of Edward the Confessor, the abbey owned slightly more than half the town; the rest being owned by Almar, the Bishop of Elmham. Almar's part was also a manor, and held in William the Conqueror's time by Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk. The town was then two miles long, and a mile and a half broad, it extended at that time into Shimpling, Fersfield, Shelfhanger, and Roydon.[3]

Governance

Bressingham forms a part of the electoral ward called Bressingham and Burston. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 2,810.[4]

For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.

Bressingham is represented at the UK Parliament by Richard Bacon.

Points of Interest
  • War Memorial, at the junction between School Road and High Road
  • Bressingham Steam and Gardens
  • Village Shop & Post Office, High Road
  • St John the Baptist Church, Church Lane
  • Bressingham Methodist Church, High Road- completed in 1900
  • Bressingham Village Hall & Playing Fields, High Road

War Memorial

The Bressingham Parish War Memorial is found on the junction between School Road and High Road. It commemorates the following individuals who died in the First World War:

  • Private Harry Flatman (1880-1918), 20th (Football) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
  • Private John Fortis (1879-1917), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • George Garland
  • Rifleman Thomas E. Goodswen (1894-1918), 8th (Post Office) Battalion, London Regiment
  • Private George H. Hall (1898-1915), 3rd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Corporal George H. Hoskins (1876-1919), 144th Siege, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • Private Herbert C. Kent, 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
  • Private William R. Leighton, 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Sergeant Charles W. Parsley, 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private Victor J. M. Rawlinson, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
  • Private Frank V. Rodwell, 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private John H. Rolfe, 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment


References
  1. Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  2. Rye. A Popular Guide to Norfolk Place-names (Larks Press, Dereham (1991)).
  3. Blomefield, Francis (c. 1736). History of Norfolk . Vol. 1. London (published 1805–1810).
  4. "Bressingham and Burston ward population 2011". Retrieved 5 September 2015.

bressinghamandfersfield.org The website of Bressingham and Fersfield's Parish Council

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