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Dersingham is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the town of King's Lynn and 70 km (43 mi) north-west of the city of Norwich, opening onto The Wash.[1]

Dersingham
St Nicholas's Church, Dersingham
Dersingham Location within Norfolk
Area	14.50 km2 (5.60 sq mi)
Population	4,640 (2011)
• Density	320/km2 (830/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TF 686 304
Civil parish	Dersingham
District	King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KING'S LYNN
Postcode district	PE31
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	North West Norfolk
List of places UK England Norfolk 52.84471°N 0.50200°E / 52.84471; 0.50200

The villages name means 'Homestead/village of Deorsige's people'.

The civil parish has an area of 14.5 km² (5.6 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 4,502 in 2,110 households, the population increasing to 4,640 at the 2011 Census.[2] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.[3]

Sandringham House, a favoured Royal residence of Queen Elizabeth II and several of her predecessors, lies just to the south of Dersingham in the parish of Sandringham. The Queen visited Dersingham Infant School to mark her Diamond Jubilee accession day on 6 February 2012.[4]

The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed building.[5] The wooden parish chest, dating from the middle of the 14th century, is carved elaborately with the symbols of the four Evangelists; on the lid, there is part of an inscription. Next to the church is the village 'tithe barn', inscribed with the date "1671 JULY 31". It was thought to have been built by the Pell family as two separate threshing barns but has been modified over time. In 1972, its ownership was passed onto the parish council by Queen Elizabeth II and it has been used more recently to house building materials to repair other period or listed buildings in the area.[6][7]

The nearby Dersingham Bog National Nature Reserve, managed by Natural England (formerly English Nature), contains habitats ranging from marshland to heathland and woodland. Birds such as the redpoll, crossbill, long-eared owl, tree pipit, sparrowhawk and nightjar can be found there.[8]

Notable residents

• Ginger Baker, drummer, rented Dersingham Hall during his Baker Gurvitz Army period^{[citation needed]}
• Arthur Bryant, historian and columnist for the Illustrated London News
• Phil Collins, drummer, solo artist and lead singer with Genesis
• John Dolignon (1813 - 1896), cricketer
• Claire Goose, actress, raised in Dersingham where her father worked as a general practitioner
• Thomas Kerrich (1748–1828), artist and antiquarian, was born here and became vicar in 1784

References

External links

• Map sources for Dersingham
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Dersingham.
• Information from NorfolkCoast.co.uk on Dersingham.
• History of Dersingham windmills
• Dersingham History community web site
• http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Dersingham

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