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This broadland market town still has its original name and spelling, Stal (a pond or stal of water) and Ham (a settlement or village). With its narrow high street and weekly market it retains many of the features it displayed in centuries gone by.

The town was on the original roman road to Caister and must have been a popular watering hole for the Romans and later on other travellers going to the coastal towns of Caister and Yarmouth. The town is joined to the river Ant by a dyke, with its own staithe, where Wherries and other trading vessels could moor. Today however, the staithe is on the other side of the busy A149 to the town and unfortunately boating holidaymakers must cross this busy road to visit the delights of Stalham.

The earliest record of the town is in 1044 and by the time the Domesday Book was compiled the town was divided into 4 manors and had a total population of around 200 people. Considerable building took place in the ensuing centuries with the church of St Mary being built in the 15th century and the lovely old Jacobean Manor house, Stalham Hall, being built in the 17th.

But by the 1880’s the town still only had a population of 852 and in many ways was self-sufficient, earning its income from agriculture and exporting grain and livestock by road and river to other parts of the country.

As with so many towns the coming of the railway changed the face of the town enabling the community to trade far and wide and to receive and send visitors throughout Britain. The station was closed in 1959 and the present Stalham Bypass was built on the route of the old line.

In recent years several housing estate developments have taken place between Stalham and Stalham Green and at the top of the high street vastly increasing the population.

From the 1960 onward, the town relied not only on its agricultural connections but also increasingly on the Broads tourist industry. Today it is the home of one of the largest holiday boat hirers and with its weekly market and auction on a Tuesday, is a popular Norfolk Town.

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