Wellingham

Human settlement in England
  • Wellingham
District
  • Breckland
Shire county
  • Norfolk
Region
  • East
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52°45′57″N 0°46′13″E / 52.76597°N 0.77036°E / 52.76597; 0.77036

Wellingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 4.39 km2 (1.69 sq mi) and had a population of 55 in 27 households at the 2001 census.[1] At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Weasenham All Saints. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland.

The villages name origin is uncertain, 'homestead/village at Welling (= spring/stream place)' or perhaps, 'homestead/village of the Wellingas (= dwellers at the spring/stream)'.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Key to English Place-names".

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