Little 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
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and covers an area of 749
hectares
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(2.9 square miles) with a population of 309 at the
2001 census. The village lies south of its sister village
Great Dunham
Great Dunham is a village situated in the Breckland District of Norfolk and covers an area of 818 hectares (3.16 square miles) with an estimated population of 325, including Kempstone and increasing to a measured population of 344 at the 2011 Cens ...
and by road north east from
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 ...
.
Little Dunham is served by the church of St Margaret in the Benefice of Great Dunham.
Great Dunham Primary School serves the village.
The unusual Fransham Obelisk raised in the memory of
Lord Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. His inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics brought ab ...
is in Little Dunham.
Thomas Pell Platt,
orientalist
Orientalist may refer to:
*A scholar of Oriental studies
*A person or thing relating to the Western intellectual or artistic paradigm known as Orientalism
*''The Orientalist'', a biography of author Lev Nussimbaum by Tom Reiss
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went to school in Little Dunham.
References
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Villages in Norfolk
Breckland District
Civil parishes in Norfolk