Dilham is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the

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county 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 ...

. The village is located 4.3 miles south-east of

North Walsham North Walsham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England, within the North Norfolk district. Demography The civil parish has an area of and in the 2011 census had a population of 12,634. For the purposes of local government, the pa ...

and 12 miles north-east of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

, and is situated on the

River Ant The River Ant is a tributary river of the River Bure in the county of Norfolk, England. It is long (of which 8.75 miles are now navigable), and has an overall drop of 27 metres from source to mouth. It is said that the Ant was formerly known as ...

History

Dilham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...

for a farmstead or homestead with an abundance of

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. In the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...

, Dilham is listed as a settlement of 23 households in the

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...

of Tunstead. The village was divided between the estates of Alan of Brittany, Robert Malet, Roger Bigod and St Benet's Abbey. Nearby Dilham Castle was built in the Fifteenth Century as a fortified manor house for Sir Henry Inglose, all that remains of the castle is the Grade II listed tower currently attached to Hall Farm.

Geography

According to the 2011 Census, Dilham Parish has a population of 319 residents living in 164 households. Dilham falls within the constituency of North Norfolk and is represented at

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by Duncan Baker MP of the Conservative Party. Dilham marks the limit of Broads navigation for larger boats, but smaller boats can continue on the

North Walsham & Dilham Canal The North Walsham and Dilham Canal is a waterway in the English county of Norfolk. It was authorised by Parliament in 1812, but work on the construction of a canal which ran parallel to a branch of the River Ant did not start until 1825. It in ...

until Honing.

St. Nicholas' Church

Dilham's parish church was almost entirely rebuilt in the Twentieth Century, with the ruins of an Anglo-Saxon round-tower church attached. Despite this, the Medieval font and organ remain.

War Memorial

Dilham's war memorial takes the form of two carved marble plaques inside St. Nicholas' Church. The memorial lists the following names of the fallen for the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

: * Lieutenant William J. Faulke (d.1918), 9th Battalion,

Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

* Lance-Corporal Harold Fiske (1893-1918), 2nd Battalion,

Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...

* Private Frederick W. Durrant (1892-1917), 7th Battalion,

Border Regiment The Border Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot. After service i ...

* Private Arthur Morter (1886-1915), 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment * Private Sidney Morter (1887-1915), 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment * Private Lawson J. Dewing (1898-1919), 429th (Agricultural) Company, Labour Corps And, the following for the

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: * Bombardier Gilbert Hannant (1882-1942), 1st Regiment,

Royal Horse Artillery The Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) was formed in 1793 as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery (commonly termed Royal Artillery) to provide horse artillery support to the cavalry units of the British Army. (Although the cavalry link r ...

* Gunner Bertie W. Mortimer (1920-1944), 72nd (Anti-Tank) Regiment,

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

* Private Basil A. Golder (1917-1942), 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Sidney H. Fiske (1918-1942), 6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Alexander B. Simpson (1915-1940), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment Smith, L. (2003). Retrieved December 23, 2022. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Dilham.html

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