Bressingham

Bressingham

St John the Baptist, Bressingham
Bressingham
Bressingham shown within Norfolk
Area 15.77 km2 (6.09 sq mi)
Population 882 (2011)
• Density 56/km2 (150/sq mi)
OS grid reference TM0780
Civil parish
  • Bressingham
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town DISS
Postcode district IP22 2
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England

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

History

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 Bessingham and Burston. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 2,810.[4]

Notes

  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. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Blomefield, Francis (c. 1736). History of Norfolk. 1. London (published c. 1806).
  4. ↑ "Bressingham and Burston ward population 2011". Retrieved 5 September 2015.

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