Editing Sheringham (section)

==History==
[[File:Town Hall, Sheringham - geograph.org.uk - 1800837.jpg|thumb|right|The former [[Sheringham Town Hall]]]]
The place-name 'Sheringham' is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, where it appears as ''Silingeham''. It appears as ''Siringeham'' in 1174, and ''Scheringham'' in the ''[[Book of Fees]]'' (''Liber feodorum'') in 1242. The name means 'the homestead of Scira's people'.<ref>[[Eilert Ekwall]], ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.417.</ref>
[[File:Frith, Francis - Sheringham, Norfolk (Zeno Fotografie).jpg|thumb|Sheringham (period 1850-98) by [[Francis Frith]]]]
Historically, the parish of Sheringham comprised the two villages of [[Upper Sheringham]], a farming community, and Lower Sheringham, which combined [[farming]] with [[fishing]].

[[File:Sheringham slipway.JPG |thumb|right|Sheringham slipway]]
The fishing industry was at its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as the coming of the railways made it possible for fish to be transported more efficiently to market. Through the 1900s the focus of the fishing, as all along the north Norfolk coast, began to be on crabs, lobsters and [[whelk]]s. The local fishermen were major suppliers of crabs and lobsters to the London fish markets. [[Long-line fishing|Long lining]] for [[cod]] and the catching of [[herring]] began to become less important in the second half of the century, as did whelking. Today, from a peak of maybe 200 boats, Sheringham has eight boats operated single-handed.

The current town of Sheringham was once Lower Sheringham, a fishing station for the main village, now known as Upper Sheringham. It is a [[railway town]] that was developed with the coming of the [[Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway]] line in the late 19th century. Most of Sheringham's range of buildings and shops come from this period and the early 20th century. It has a particularly interesting range of buildings using flint, not normally in the traditional Norfolk style but in a variety of techniques. [[Sheringham Town Hall]], the former headquarters of Sheringham Urban District Council, was completed in 1912.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.north-norfolk.gov.uk/media/6109/sheringham-conservation-appraisal-2013-draft.pdf|title=Sheringham Conservation Area Appraisal|page=62|publisher=North Norfolk District Council|year=2013|access-date=25 February 2022}}</ref>

In the [[First World War]], Sheringham was hit by two bombs from a [[Zeppelin]] raid at 20:30 GMT on 18 January 1915, making it the first place in Britain to be attacked by Zeppelins from the air. No one was killed.<ref>{{cite news|title=Norfolk towns mark WW1 Zeppelin raid centenary|work= BBC News|date= 19 January 2015|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-30872089|access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>