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DEREHAM (properly EAST DEREHAM)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 73 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEREHAM (properly See also:EAST DEREHAM) , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Mid See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Norfolk, See also:England, 122 M. N.N.E. from See also:London by the See also:Great Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (19o1) 5545. The See also:church of St See also:Nicholas is a cruciform Perpendicular structure with a beautiful central See also:tower, and some portions of earlier date. It contains a See also:monument to See also:William See also:Cowper, who came to live here in 1796, and the Congregational See also:chapel stands on the site of the See also:house where the poet spent his last days. Derhham is an important agricultural centre with See also:works for the manufacture of agricultural implements, See also:iron foundries and a malting See also:industry.

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