Great Cressingham is a
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 ...
village which lies about of
Watton, south of
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 ...
and only off the
A1065 arterial road
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below freeways/motorways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector r ...
just north of
Hilborough
Hilborough is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is south of Swaffham, west-southwest of Norwich and north-northeast of London.
The population of the parish (including Bodney) at the 2011 Census was 243. ...
. It is north west by road from
Little Cressingham. In 2007 it had an estimated population of 235, in an area of , including
Little Cressingham and increasing to 421 at the 2011 Census.
The village's name origin is uncertain but probably means 'Homestead/village of Cressa's people', or perhaps, 'cress homestead/village'.
The village church is dedicated to Saint Michael. in the
Benefice of
Cockley Cley.
There is a pub called the Olde Windmill Inn.
The village school was built in 1840. It was used as a local Authority school until 1992 and was then acquired by Tom and Sally North. They have restored it as closely as possible to how it would have been in Victorian times and now run free historical school days.
Great Cressingham Victorian School
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Great Cressingham is on the very edge of the British Army's Stanford Training Area.
References
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Great%20and%20Little%20Cressingham
Villages in Norfolk
Breckland District
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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