Nordelph

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{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|52.583652|0.295944|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = TF556008

| official_name = Nordelph

| population = 405

| area_total_km2 = 16.57

| shire_district = King's Lynn and West Norfolk

| shire_county = Norfolk

| region = East of England

| civil_parish = Nordelph

| constituency_westminster =

| postcode_district = PE38

| postcode_area = PE

| post_town = DOWNHAM MARKET

| dial_code =

| london_distance =

|static_image = Holy Trinity, Nordelph, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 472941.jpg

|static_image_width = 240px

|static_image_caption= Holy Trinity, Nordelph

}}

Nordelph is a civil parish near Downham Market in the English county of Norfolk.

The parish covers an area of {{convert|16.57|km2|abbr=on}} and had a population of 375 in 151 households at the 2001 census,[http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211032229/http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls |date=11 February 2017}}. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. increasing to 405 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127002&c=Nordelph&d=16&e=62&g=6449414&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440776081178&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=28 August 2015}} In 1930 a new civil parish of Nordelph was created in Downham Rural District, taking land mostly out of the Marshland RD parishes of Upwell and Outwell.{{cite web|publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth|title=Upwell CP through time: Population Statistics: Area (acres)|website=A Vision of Britain through Time|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10200167/cube/AREA_ACRES|access-date=26 June 2017|at=Shows reduction in Upwell between 1921 & 1931. Note that several other pages on the site fail to report this transfer.}}

For the purposes of local government, Nordelph falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

The Church of England parish church, Holy Trinity, is of brick in the Early English style, and was erected in 1865 as a chapel of ease to the parish church of Upwell.{{cite book|title=History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood|author=F.J.Gardiner|page=397|publisher=Gardiner & Co|year=1898}} A new ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1909 from the parishes of Upwell, Downham West, Denver, Stow Bardolph and Outwell. The Reverend Edwin Emmanuel Bradford (1860–1944), Uranian poet and novelist, was vicar of Nordelph from 1909 to 1944.{{cite web|title=Holy Trinity, Nordelph|work=Norfolk Churches|url=http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/nordelph/nordelph.htm|access-date=29 July 2007}} In 1912, there were also Wesleyan Methodist and United Methodist chapels.Kelly's Directory of Norfolk (1912)