title: West Rudham
text: # West Rudham
  
  West Rudham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village straddles the A148 King's Lynn to Cromer road. It covers an area of 11.81 $km^2$ (4.56 sq mi) and had a population of 213 in 97 households at the 2001 census, the population including Houghton and increasing to 288 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
  
  ## History
  
  The villages name means 'Rudda's homestead/village' or 'Rudda's hemmed-in land'.
  
  There is evidence of occupation during the Middle Ages.
  
  In 2016 and 2016 archaeological test pits were dug. The report was published in 2019.
  
  