Snettisham

In local dialect it may be pronounced "Snettsham", or "Snettsum" (the emphasis is placed upon the vowel in the first syllable); "Snettshum" The village's name means 'Snaet's/Sneti's homestead/village'. The civil parish has an area of 28.03 km (10.82 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 2374 in 1097 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. The population of the civil parish had increased to 2,570 by 2011 and to 2,710 by 2021. St Mary's Church in the village has a 172-foot (52 m) high spire, a landmark for ships in The Wash. The church is a Grade I listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner called it "perhaps the most exciting 14th-century Decorated church in Norfolk". It served as the model for Christ Church Cathedral in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, built 1845–1853.