Dersingham

Dersingham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the village or settlement of Deorsige's people. {{Cite web |title=Key to English Place-names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Dersingham |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}}

In the Domesday Book, Dersingham is listed as a settlement of 115 households in the hundred of Freebridge. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Eudo, son of Spirewic and Peter de Valognes. {{Cite web |title=Dersingham {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TF6930/dersingham/ |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=opendomesday.org}}

In 1984, a horde of silver shillings with a silver cup was discovered in Dersingham which date from the Tudor and Stuart eras.{{Cite web |title=mnf21109 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer |url=https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf21109 |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk}}

According to the 2021 census, Dersingham has a population of 4,755 people which shows an increase from the 4,640 people listed in the 2011 census.{{Cite web |title=Dersingham (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/admin/kings_lynn_and_west_norf/E04006302__dersingham/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}

Dersingham is located along the A149, between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth.

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.{{Cite web |title=SSSI detail |url=https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1001610&SiteName=&countyCode=29&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea= |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk}}

File:John Sell Cotman - Chest in Dersingham Church, Norfolk - Google Art Project.jpg, chest in Dersingham Church (1815)]]

Dersingham's parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and dates from the 14th century. St Nicholas' is located on Church Lane and has been a Grade I listed building since 1953.{{NHLE |desc=CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, Dersingham |num=1342317 |access-date=2024-12-21 }}

St Nicholas' holds a good example of a 14th-century chancel with stained glass depicting Jesus, Saint Agnes and Saint Luke installed by James Powell and Sons and Charles Eamer Kempe in the early 20th century. 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.{{Cite web |title=Norfolk Churches |url=http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dersingham/dersingham.htm |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.norfolkchurches.co.uk}}

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 in February 2012. 'Dersingham Infant and Nursery School welcomes the Queen.' Lynn News (6 February 2012). {{retrieved|access-date=23 December 2022}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324091206/http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/local/latest-local-news/dersingham-infant-and-nursery-school-welcomes-the-queen-1-3493431|date=24 March 2016}}.

• Thomas Kerrich (1748-1828) clergyman, librarian and antiquarian, born in Dersingham.
• John Dolignon (1813-1896) Norfolk and Marylebone Cricket Club cricketer, born in Dersingham.
• Arthur Harry Cross (1858-1906) chorister and composer, lived in Dersingham.
• Arthur Bryant (1899-1985) historian and writer, born in Dersingham.
• Ginger Baker (1939-2019) drummer, rented Dersingham Hall during his Baker Gurvitz Army period.
• Phil Collins (b.1951) English musician and frontman of Genesis, resident of Dersingham.
• Claire Goose (b.1975) actress, raised in Dersingham.

Dersingham is an electoral ward for local elections and is part of the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is North West Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative's James Wild MP since 2010.

Dersingham War Memorial is a stone-brick obelisk on Station Road which was unveiled in 1923 and renovated in 2008.{{NHLE |desc=Dersingham War Memorial, Dersingham |num=1452790 |access-date=2024-12-21 }} The memorial lists the following names for the First World War:{{Cite web |title=Roll of Honour - Norfolk - Dersingham |url=https://roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Dersingham.html |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=roll-of-honour.com}}{{Cite web |title=Geograph:: Denton to Dunton cum Doughton :: War Memorials in Norfolk |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/War-Memorials-in-Norfolk/6#denton-to-dunton-cum-doughton |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.geograph.org.uk}}

And, Thomas Nurse.

• Dersingham railway station

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