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Dereham Heritage Trust maintains an Archive on behalf of the Town, preserving documents and items of local and historical interest.
Our Collection
The Town Archive is an invaluable resource for the study of local history, with Dereham Heritage Trust collecting and preserving many hundreds of town records and artefacts since its foundation in 1953. Our collection covers Dereham and the surrounding areas within a 10 mile radius.
Many of our important historical records about Dereham are stored in the Norfolk Record Office, located next to the County Hall in Norwich, but in Dereham we have many items of interest. If you are interested in consulting something in the Archive, please get in touch with our Archive team by emailing archive@derehamheritagetrust.org.uk.
Dereham & Fakenham Times Archive
The Archive includes most volumes of the Dereham Times (and its predecessors) back to the 1880s, owned by Newsquest but looked after by us. If you would like to consult these volumes or would like our Archivists to find an article for you, please email archive@derehamheritagetrust.org.uk and a member of our Archive team will be happy to help. When submitting your request, It is helpful to know the date of the item as closely as possible, for the volumes are not digitised or indexed.
Family History Research
Dereham Heritage Trust has a range of helpful documents including Monumental Inscription booklets and transcripts of gravestones and memorials from the local area, prepared by Mid-Norfolk Family History Society.
To help with your searches you can buy copies of burial records and memorial inscriptions for Dereham and over 70 surrounding villages on the Parish Chest website. The information in these booklets can save a lot of fruitless and frustrating searching, plus your purchases help support Dereham Heritage Trust as we receive funds generated by the sales.
Our Archive team is also on-hand to help with any local family history research. For more information about our Family History services, please visit the Family History page below.
Donations
Do you have anything you would like to donate to the Archive or Museum? We are always interested in items which shed light on Dereham’s past, helping us better understand it. We are particularly keen to have significant records of churches, clubs, and organisations. For more information about donations, please visit our Donations page, or contact archive@derehamheritagetrust.org.uk and a member of our Archive team will be in touch.