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Welcome to the story of Dereham's Past

This year we are celebrating two special anniversaries : 60 years of the Dereham Antiquarian Society 1953 - 2013; and 50 years of the Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum 1963 - 2013, by the launch of this new website, and a free admission day to the museum on its birthday of 11th May. 

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Discover more about Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum of local history and archaeology - and the group of volunteers who run it from the Dereham Antiquarian Society. 

Interested in history? Local, family, archaeology - whatever! Please come and join us, membership of the Society is open to all.

For further information, please choose from the menu on the left-hand side, or above if you are using a mobile phone.

"Pretty, quiet Dereham, thou pattern of an English town".
Quotation from Lavengro by George Borrow, one of Dereham's famous sons, born in 1803.

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