In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Little Dunham like this:
DUNHAM (Little), a parish in Mitford distrlct, Norfolk; on the East Anglian railway, at Dunham station, 4¼ miles ENE of Swaffham. It has a post office under Swaffham. Acres, 1,835. Real property, £3, 227. Pop., 327. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. Dunham Lodge is the seat of George Copeman, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norfolk. Value, £451.* Patron, the Rev. J. Nelson. The church was restored in 1862. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a national school, and charities £75.
Little Dunham through time
Little Dunham is now part of Breckland district. Click here for graphs and data of how Breckland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Little Dunham itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Little Dunham, in Breckland and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2993
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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