Wellingham

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{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|52.76597|0.77036|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = TF870223

| official_name = Wellingham

| population =

| population_ref = (2001 census)

| area_total_km2 = 4.39

| shire_district = Breckland

| shire_county = Norfolk

| region = East of England

| civil_parish = Wellingham

| constituency_westminster =

| postcode_district = PE32

| postcode_area = PE

| post_town = KING'S LYNN

| dial_code =

| london_distance =

|static_image = Wellingham parish church, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 123718.jpg

|static_image_width = 240px

|static_image_caption= St Andrew's Church, Wellingham

}}

Wellingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

It covers an area of {{convert|4.39|km2|abbr=on}} and had a population of 55 in 27 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]. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Weasenham All Saints. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland.

The villages name origin is uncertain, 'homestead/village at Welling (= spring/stream place)' or perhaps, 'homestead/village of the Wellingas (= dwellers at the spring/stream)'.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Wellingham|title=Key to English Place-names}}

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