Bressingham
≈ 1 min read
Names in other languages
No names in other languages are held for this entry yet.
Article bodies are English and are not machine-translated. A name in another language is not a translation of the article.
Bressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is north-west of Diss and south-west of Norwich.
Bressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is north-west of Diss and south-west of Norwich. ==History== Bressingham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting of 47 households, which placed it in the largest 20% of settlements. At this time, Bressingham was divided between the land of William the Conqueror (2 acres of meadow, 6 pigs and woodland) and Bury St Edmunds Abbey (16 acres of meadow, 26 pigs and woodland). From 1804, Bressingham had a thriving Amicable Society with upwards of 30 members1 agreeing to a rudimentary form of life insurance. The society conducted its meetings in the Chequers pub. A Methodist chapel was built in Bressingham in 1900. ==Governance== Bressingham is part of the electoral ward of Bressingham and Burston for local elections and is part of the district of South Norfolk. It is part of the Waveney Valley parliamentary constituency. ==Listed buildings== ==References== ==External links== bressinghamandfersfield.org The website of Bressingham and Fersfield's Parish Council
Text derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349060192 under CC BY-SA 4.0; modifications have been made.