North Elmham is a village (population 1428^[1]) in Norfolk about 8 km (5 miles) north of East Dereham on the west bank of the River Wensum. It was the site of the pre-Norman catherdral of Elmham, seat of the Bishops of East Anglia until 1075. Norfolk (pronounced IPA: ) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... The River Wensum is a river in Norfolk, England and a tributary of the River Yare. ...

Located prominently to the north of the village was the Norfolk County School which on closing in the 1890s was taken over for the Watts Naval School, the birthplace of the actor John Mills. The fine buildings have now been demolished. The County School Station on branch line served the school, and today is preserved as a small visitor centre. Watts Naval School was originally The Norfolk County School, a public school set up to serve the educational needs of the sons of farmers and artisans. The foundation stone was laid on Easter Monday 1873 by Edward Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VII). ... Watts Naval School was originally The Norfolk County School, a public school set up to serve the educational needs of the sons of farmers and artisans. The foundation stone was laid on Easter Monday 1873 by Edward Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VII). ... John Mills as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the Thames Television science-fiction serial Quatermass (1979). ... A railway line was opened as part of the Norfolk Railways extension from Dereham to Fakenham in 1849, but County School Station was not built until 1884 to serve the private school from which it took its name, and following the opening of the Wroxham branch line in...

North Elmham Mill, known locally Grint Mill, had two breastshot waterwheels until the early twentieth century when they were replaced by two turbines. By the 1970s the milling machinery was driven by mains electricity while the turbines were used to drive a sack hoist and two mixing machines. The mill continued to produce animal feed into the late twentieth century.

No trace of the Saxon cathedral survives. It housed the episcopal throne of the Bishops of East Anglia from around 955 and is thought to have done so before the Danish invasions. A mid ninth-century copper-alloy hanging censer was discovered at North Elmham in 1786. The earthworks and ruins at North Elmham stewarded by English Heritage are thought to be the remains of Bishop Herbert de Losinga's late eleventh-century episcopal church and the late fourteenth century double-moated castle built on this by Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich. A censer is a vessel for burning incense. ... English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ... Arms of the Bishop of Norwich The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. ...

It is unclear whether North Elmham or South Elmham, Suffolk is the site of East Anglia's second See ("Helmham"), founded in the reign of King Ealdwulf (c.664-713) according to Bede. The Saints are a group of villages in Suffolk, England, near the border with Norfolk. ... Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ... Ealdwulf (??? - 1002), was Archbishop of York between 995 and his death in 1002. ...

References

1. ^  Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001. "Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes."

• Bede, Ecclesiastical History of England
• Rainbird Clarke, R. East Anglia (London, 1960)
• White, William. History, Gazetteer, & Directory of Norfolk, (1845)
• Whitelock, D. 'The pre-Viking Church in East Anglia', Anglo-Saxon England, 1 (1972)