Bressingham

18°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 22° / 16° · 81% rain
• Tomorrow: 26° / 15° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:25Sunset 19:18

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

267 reported road collisions (2024)

77 killed or seriously injured · 372 casualties · 18.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 13 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Diss (5.2 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£312,124 average▲ 2% YoY

Across South Norfolk · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£981 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £696
• 2 bed £890
• 3 bed £1,107

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

8.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.1 times median annual pay (8.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 167.9p · Morrisons (4.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Morrisons (4.2 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Bressingham Steam Museum (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

141,948 residents in South Norfolk · 156/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 225 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,483 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (27% of 67,580)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

78 schools · 20,759 pupils

64 primary · 8 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 24 of 31 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (77%)

74inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Norfolk

877 CQC-registered services

• Care homes320
• GP practices126
• Dentists171
• Homecare agencies178
• Hospitals & hospices29

CQC ratings: 81% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 23 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Norfolk

• Not in the Green Belt
• 51 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

211 applications decided

92.4% granted · 195 granted, 16 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 9
• Con 23
• LD 9
• Grn 1
• Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,590 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

33 jobs advertised · £45,134 avg

e.g. Manager, Retail Assistant, Goods Inwards and Inspection Assistant

Source: Adzuna

£767 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,437 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

47% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 67,071 certificates

10.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 85.2 yrs women · 81.5 yrs men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Waveney Valley:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership476 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership410 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office315 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s263 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases222 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Bressingham · 0.1 km

  Bressingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 2.1 miles (3.4 km) north-west of Diss and 19 miles (31 km) south-west of Norwich.

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  Bressingham Steam and Gardens · 0.5 km

  Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and gardens located at Bressingham, west of Diss in Norfolk, England. The site has several narrow gauge rail lines and a number of types of steam engines and vehicles in i…

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  St Mary's Church, Wortham · 2.1 km

  St Mary's Church is the parish church of Wortham in Suffolk, England, and in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It is a round-tower church; the tower is said to be the largest such in England. The building is…

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  Roydon, South Norfolk · 2.2 km

  Roydon is a small village, parish and electoral ward in the county of Norfolk, England, about a mile west of Diss. It lies on a rise above the flood plain north of the River Waveney, which also acts as the county boun…

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  Wortham Ling · 2.2 km

  Wortham Ling is a 53.2-hectare (131-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Wortham in Suffolk.

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  Fersfield · 2.3 km

  Fersfield is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bressingham, in the South Norfolk district, in the English county of Norfolk.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)