Ditchingham
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Ditchingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located by the River Waveney, within The Broads National Park. [1]
The civil parish has an area of 8.56 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 1614 in 695 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.[2]
The novelist Sir H. Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon's Mines, lived in Ditchingham and was churchwarden there for several years. He was born in Kessingland and had connections with the church in Bungay.
In 1855 Lavinia Crosse founded the Anglican Community of All Hallows in Ditchingham.
[edit] References
- ^ Ordnance Survey (2005). OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads. ISBN 0-319-23769-9.
- ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005.
[edit] External links
- Map sources for Ditchingham.
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Ditchingham.
- Information from NorfolkChurches.co.uk on St Mary's Church, Ditchingham
- Anglican Community of All Hallows information on the Anglican Community of All Hallows.
