Great Dunham is a village situated in the Breckland District of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

and covers an area of 818

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(3.16 square miles) with an estimated population of 325, including Kempstone and increasing to a measured population of 344 at the 2011 Census. The village lies north of its sister village Little Dunham and by road north east from

Swaffham Swaffham () is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District and English county of Norfolk. It is situated east of King's Lynn and west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 6,9 ...

. The village's name means 'Hill homestead/village.' It is served by St Andrew's church in the

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of Great Dunham. Great Denham used to have a

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which was superseded by a

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, now derelict. There was once a Dunham railway station serving the two sister settlements. It is now closed.

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Key to English Place-names
{{authority control Villages in Norfolk Breckland District Civil parishes in Norfolk