Bressingham
Sign in to saveBressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is north-west of Diss and south-west of Norwich.
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Place details
- Locality
- Mid Suffolk
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Bressingham
- UK place.population
- 872
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 15.76
- UK place.civil_parish
- Bressingham
- UK place.shire_district
- South Norfolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Norfolk
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Waveney Valley
- UK place.post_town
- DISS
- UK place.postcode_district
- IP22
- UK place.postcode_area
- IP
- UK place.dial_code
- 01379
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TM0780
- UK place.static_image
- St John the Baptist,Bressingham - geograph.org.uk - 1024930.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of St. John the Baptist, Bressingham
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- Church of St. John the Baptist
- Bressingham Steam and Gardens
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Bressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is north-west of Diss and south-west of Norwich.
==History== Bressingham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origi. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting of 47 households, which placed it in the largest 20% of settlements. At this time, Bressingham was divided between the land of William the Conqueror (2 acres of meadow, 6 pigs and woodland) and Bury St Edmunds Abbey (16 acres of meadow, 26 pigs and woodland).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bressingham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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