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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dersingham like this:
DERSINGHAM, a parish in Docking district, Norfolk; on the Lynn and Hunstanton railway, 4 miles NNE of Castle-Rising. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Lynn. Acres, 3, 472. Real property, £3, 985. Pop., 822. Houses, 166. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £132. Patron, the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The church is of flint. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £23, with a fuel allotment.
Dersingham is now part of KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dersingham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dersingham, in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3952
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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