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Listed buildings in Dereham

non-Civil Parish in Norfolk, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ138545492 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dereham is a town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. It contains 111 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these one is grade I, one is grade II* and 109 are grade II.

This list is based on the information retrieved online from Historic England.

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“Listed buildings in Dereham” enters the record as non-Civil Parish in Norfolk, England. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Listed, buildings and Dereham can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 56-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Listed, buildings and Dereham.
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This entry incorporates text from “Listed buildings in Dereham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.