Warham is a village and

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in the

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. It is situated about inland from the north Norfolk coast, south-east of the town of

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and north-west of the city of

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.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central''. . The villages name means 'Weir homestead/village'. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census and the 2011 Census had a population of 193 in 79 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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of North Norfolk.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001).
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
''. Retrieved 2 December 2005. This small village has two large

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churches, and used to have three. The present Church of England parish church All Saints' with its collapsed west tower, is in the village centre near the pub; St Mary Magdalene is about to the west. All Saints' is Grade II* listed; St Mary's Grade I. Originally there were three ecclesiastical parishes here, but the parishes were merged after the English Reformation. In the process, the church of St Mary the Virgin was demolished. It used to stand just east of All Saints, on the other side of the lane to

Wighton Wighton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some south of the town of Wells-next-the-Sea, north of the town of Fakenham, and north-west of the city of Norwich. The medieval pilgrimage centre ...

.Batcock: Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk 1991, p55 Just south of the village is Warham Camp, a small

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earthwork built by the

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in the 2nd century BC, known locally as 'the Danish Camp'. The village has a tiny request stop - Warham railway station - on the

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Wells and Walsingham Light Railway.

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Information from Genuki Norfolk
on Warham All Saints parish.
Information from Genuki Norfolk
on Warham St Mary Magdalen parish.

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