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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 .
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.
Norfolk County (/ ˈ n ɔːr f oʊ k / NOR-fohk) is a rural single-tier municipality on the north shore of Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario, Canada with a 2023 population of 73,015. [3] Despite its name, it is no longer a county by definition, as all municipal services are handled by a single level of government.
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 ...
Dereham falls within, and is the centre of administration for, Breckland District Council. [3] The town should not be confused with the Norfolk village of West Dereham, which lies about 25 miles (40 km) away. Since 1983, Dereham has been twinned with the town of Rüthen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Dereham Rush Meadow is a 22.2-hectare (55-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Dereham in Norfolk. [1] [2] This is an area of grassland and alder carr in the valley of a tributary of the River Wensum. The site has diverse habitats and it is traditionally maintained by grazing by horses. It is subject to flooding in ...