Barsham, Norfolk
Barsham is a
civil parish in the
English county of
Norfolk, and includes the
villages of
East Barsham,
North Barsham,
West Barsham and
Houghton St Giles. The villages are all situated with
3 km of each other, about
5 km north of the town of
Fakenham and
45 km north-west of the city of
Norwich. The headwaters of the
River Stiffkey flow through both East and North Barsham and Houghton St Giles.
Originally all four villages had their own parishes, but these were merged to create a single civil parish in 1935. This parish has an area of
19.4 km² and in the
2001 census had a population of 253 in 115 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the
district of
North Norfolk.
The mediaeval pilgrimage centre of
Walsingham lies only
2 km north of Houghton St Giles, and the
Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady or
Slipper Chapel is actually located within the civil parish of Barsham.
East Barsham Manor, in the village of East Barsham, is an important work of
Tudor architecture.
* Ordnance Survey (2002).
OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central. ISBN 0319218872.
* Great Britain Historical GIS Project.
Barsham CP Norfolk through time. Retrieved
December 22,
2005.
* Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001).
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved
December 2,
2005.
* for East Barsham.
* for North Barsham.
* for West Barsham.
* for Houghton St Giles.
