Bressingham

Bressingham
St John the Baptist, Bressingham
Bressingham
Bressingham shown within Norfolk
Area	15.77 km² (6.09 sq mi)
Population	882 (2011)
• Density	56/km² (150/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TM0780
Civil parish	Bressingham
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DISS
Postcode district	IP22 2

Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
List of places UK England Norfolk 52°22′N 1°02′E / 52.37°N 01.04°E / 52.37; 01.04Coordinates: 52°22′N 1°02′E / 52.37°N 01.04°E / 52.37; 01.04

Bressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 15.77 km² (6.09 sq mi) and had a population of 751 in 305 households as of the 2001 census, the population increasing to 882 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.

This town of Bressingham was given by Osulph le Sire, and the lady Laverine, or Leofrine, his wife, to the abbey of St. Edmund's in Bury in about 963. By the time of Edward the Confessor, the abbey owned slightly more than half the town; the rest being owned by Almar, the Bishop of Elmham. Almar's part was also a manor, and held in William the Conqueror's time by Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk. The town was then two miles long, and a mile and a half broad, it extended at that time into Shimpling, Fersfield, Shelfhanger, and Roydon.

Bressingham forms a part of the electoral ward called Bessingham and Burston. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 2,810.

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