Great Bircham is the largest of the three villages that make up the

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Bircham Bircham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It includes the three villages of Great Bircham, Bircham Newton and Bircham Tofts. The parish is located about 12 miles (20 km) north-east of the town of King's Lynn and 37 mile ...

, in the west of the

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county of

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. The village is located about half a mile south of the village of

Bircham Newton Bircham Newton is the smallest of the three villages that make up the civil parish of Bircham, in the west of the English county of Norfolk. The village is located about 1 km north of the larger village of Great Bircham, 20 km north- ...

, the same distance west of the village of Bircham Tofts,12 miles north-east of the town of King's Lynn, and 38 miles north-west of the city of

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. The King's Head is a hotel and bar. In 1931 the parish had a population of 327. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished to form Bircham. Bircham Windmill, Great Bircham

The villages name means 'homestead/village with newly broken ground'.http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Great%20Bircham

References

* Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 250 - Norfolk Coast West''. .

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