Ditchingham

Ditchingham
St Mary's church, Ditchingham
Ditchingham
Ditchingham shown within Norfolk
Area	8.56 km² (3.31 sq mi)
Population	1,635 (2011)
• Density	191/km² (490/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TM 340 910
Civil parish	Ditchingham
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BUNGAY
Postcode district	NR35

Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
List of places UK England Norfolk 52°28′00″N 1°26′37″E / 52.46676°N 1.44351°E / 52.46676; 1.44351Coordinates: 52°28′00″N 1°26′37″E / 52.46676°N 1.44351°E / 52.46676; 1.44351

Ditchingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located across the River Waveney from Bungay, Suffolk near to The Broads National Park.

The civil parish has an area of 8.56 km² (3.31 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 1614 in 695 households, increasing to 1,635 in 707 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.

In 1855 Lavinia Crosse founded the Anglican Community of All Hallows in Ditchingham.

The novelist Sir H. Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon's Mines, lived in Ditchingham and was churchwarden there for several years. He was born in Kessingland and had connections with the church in Bungay.

Lilias Rider Haggard, the novelist's daughter, edited I walked by Night, being the life and history of the King of the Norfolk Poachers, published in 1935 by Nicholson and Watson, London. She also edited The Rabbit Skin Cap, a tale of a Norfolk countryman's youth, first published in 1939 and reprinted by the Norfolk Library, 1974, 1975, 1976, which is the life story of George Baldry, a local inventor and poacher in the early C20. The picture on the front cover of the hardback edition was of a Ditchingham school boy, Douglas Walter Gower, taken from a painting by the artist Edward Seago. The boy later in life found a mammoth's tooth in a gravel pit near an ancient long barrow on the Broome Heath (see Prehistoric Norfolk), which is now in the Norwich Castle museum.

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