Rougham 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
English 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 ...
.
It covers an area of and had a population of 152 in 69 households at the
2001 census, reducing to a population of 141 at the 2011 Census in 55 households.
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the
district
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of
Breckland.
Buildings of note
The local Church is Saint Mary's, a
perpendicular
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church dating from the 14th century, that was partly rebuilt in 1913. It contains a number of monuments to the
Yelverton family.
Rougham Hall is a Grade II listed manor house, a largely 19th-century building on the site of the former Jacobean manor. During its restoration in 1878 it had added to it a staircase dated from circa 1700 taken from
Finborough Hall, in Suffolk. It is the ancestral home of the North family, descendants of
Dudley North, 4th Baron North, and his son, the lawyer
Roger North. The latter set up a parochial library at Rougham which contained the books and manuscripts of his late niece, the orientalist and linguist
Dudleya North.
Toponymy
The name "Rougham" is derived from the old English ''Ruhham'', with ''ruh'' probably meaning rough ground, and ''ham'', meaning village.
Hewing the Stones, a genealogy site
Retrieved 27/2/2012
References
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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