Great Dunham is a village situated in the

Breckland Breckland in Norfolk and Suffolk is a 39,433 hectare Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. The SPA partly overlaps the 7,544 hectare Breckland Special Area of Conservation. As a la ...

District 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 Nort ...

and covers an area of 818

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(3.16 square miles) with an estimated population of 325, including

Kempstone Kempstone is a village situated in the Breckland District of Norfolk and covers an area of 331 hectares (1.3 square miles) with an estimated population of 18 as of UK census 2001 At the 2011 Census the population remained less 100 and is includ ...

and increasing to a measured population of 344 at the 2011 Census. The village lies north of its sister village

Little Dunham Little Dunham is a village situated in the Breckland District of Norfolk and covers an area of 749 hectares (2.9 square miles) with a population of 309 at the 2001 census. The village lies south of its sister village Great Dunham and by road ...

and by road north east from Swaffham. The village's name means 'Hill homestead/village.' It is served by St Andrew's church in the

Benefice A benefice () or living is a reward received in exchange for services rendered and as a retainer for future services. The Roman Empire used the Latin term as a benefit to an individual from the Empire for services rendered. Its use was adopted by ...

of Great Dunham. Great Denham used to have a

smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This type ...

which was superseded by a

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, now derelict. There was once a

Dunham railway station Dunham railway station was located in Little Dunham, Norfolk on the Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had ot ...

serving the two sister settlements. It is now closed.

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Key to English Place-names
{{authority control Villages in Norfolk Breckland District Civil parishes in Norfolk