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West Dereham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 13.51 km 2 (5.22 sq mi) and had a population of 450 at the 2011 Census. [ 1 ] For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk .
Sir Thomas Dereham was born in West Dereham Abbey, Norfolk, the son and heir of Sir Richard Dereham, 3rd Baronet, by his wife Frances Villiers [2] (alias Wright, Howard, Danvers), a daughter of Robert Danvers, Viscount Purbeck (1624-1674) (alias Wright, Howard, Villiers) the illegitimate son of Frances Coke (probably by Sir Robert Howard of Clun Castle, Shropshire), the estranged wife of John ...
West Dereham Abbey was an abbey in Norfolk, England. [1] St Mary's Abbey, West Dereham, was founded in 1188 by Hubert Walter, Dean of York, at his birthplace. It was to be a daughter house of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, for canons regular of the Premonstratensian order.
Opened as Abbey by the Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway on 1 August 1882, [2] the line was run from the beginning by the Great Eastern Railway (GER). The station was renamed twice: on 1 January 1886 it became Abbey for West Dereham; and in 1923 as a result of the Grouping the GER became part of the London and North Eastern Railway and the new owners renamed the station Abbey and West Dereham ...
Scarning Fen is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) nature reserve west in Dereham in Norfolk.It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. [1] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, [2] and is part of Potter and Scarning Fens Site of Special Scientific Interest [3] and Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation.
At Abbey and West Dereham, a privately owned line, the Wissington Light Railway, branched off. It opened c. 1905 , mostly closed in 1957, [ 7 ] and finally closed in 1982. [ 8 ]
Firstly to Mary Soame, only daughter of Col. Edmund Soame (d. 1706) of Dereham, Norfolk, a Member of Parliament for Thetford in Norfolk from 1701 to 1705, who fought for King William III. His life-size alabaster statue [10] survives in West Dereham Church. Secondly he married Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Henry Grey of Hackney, Middlesex.
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