Lessingham
Lessingham is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish also includes the village of Eccles on Sea and the hamlet of Hempstead. Lessingham is located 16.3 miles south-east of Cromer and 17.6 miles north-east of Norwich.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 507 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lessingham, Norfolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Saints and Happisburgh Lighthouse.
Happisburgh Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Mfield, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Happisburgh Lighthouse in Happisburgh on the North Norfolk coast is the only independently operated lighthouse in Great Britain. It is also the oldest working lighthouse in East Anglia. Historically it was also often called Haisborough or Haisbro' Lighthouse. Happisburgh Lighthouse is situated 1½ miles north of Lessingham.
Holy Trinity Church, Ingham
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holy Trinity Church in Ingham, Norfolk, England has been designated as a Grade I listed building by Historic England. The tower dates from the 15th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eccles on Sea and Brumstead.
Eccles on Sea
Village
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eccles-on-Sea is an ancient fishing village in north-east Norfolk, now virtually all swept into the North Sea. The population is included in the civil parish of Lessingham.
Brumstead
Village
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Brumstead is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located 1.4 miles north-west of Stalham and 14 miles north-east of Norwich. The village is locally known as Brunstead, as depicting on the village sign. Brumstead is situated 2 miles southwest of Lessingham.
Stalham
Town
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Stalham is a market town and civil parish on the River Ant in the English county of Norfolk, in East Anglia. It covers an area of 2.82 sq mi and had a population of 2,951 in 1,333 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 3,149 at the 2011 Census. Stalham is situated 2½ miles southwest of Lessingham.
Lessingham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Lessingham, Norfolk Coast, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.79897° or 52° 47′ 56″ northLongitude
1.54982° or 1° 32′ 59″ eastPopulation
507Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
9F43QGXX+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 29224402OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2644599Wikidata ID
Q2324451
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Lessingham” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lessingham”
- Dutch: “Lessingham”
- French: “Lessingham”
- Irish: “Lessingham”
- Ladin: “Lessingham”
- Persian: “لسینگهم”
- Polish: “Lessingham”
- Swedish: “Lessingham”
- Turkish: “Lessingham”
- Welsh: “Lessingham”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lessingham Village Hall and Lessingham Methodist Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lessingham”. Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.