Bressingham


Bressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
It covers an area of and had a population of 751 in 305 households as of the 2001 census, the population increasing to 882 at the 2011 Census.

History

This town of Bressingham was given by Osulph le Sire, and the lady Laverine, or Leofrine, his wife, to the abbey of St. Edmund's in Bury in about 963. By the time of Edward the Confessor, the abbey owned slightly more than half the town; the rest being owned by Almar, the Bishop of Elmham. Almar's part was also a manor, and held in William the Conqueror's time by Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk. The town was then two miles long, and a mile and a half broad, it extended at that time into Shimpling, Fersfield, Shelfhanger, and Roydon.

Governance

Bressingham forms a part of the electoral ward called Bressingham and Burston. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 2,810.
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.