Walkers are Welcome Town - Dereham

The poet and hymn writer, William Cowper (1731-1800) settled and died in Dereham, Norfolk. He wrote of life in the English countryside, becoming a forerunner of Romantic Poetry. He was much admired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

Cowper’s House in Dereham Market Place was demolished, and the Cowper Evangelical Congregational Church was built in his memory.

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Walkers are Welcome Town - Dereham

Dereham is a market town in the centre of Norfolk, its varied walking routes linking to the Norfolk Trails network and the developing England Coast Path.

The town has shops, cafés and pubs, with many interesting places to visit, including Dereham Windmill, the Mid-Norfolk Railway and Bishop Bonner’s Cottage.

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#ThickTrunkTuesday Large #YEW tree in #Dereham #Norfolk churchyard that has grown up around a gravestone dated 1868

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