Deopham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a homestead close to a deep body of water, likely the nearby Sea Mere.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Deopham is listed as a settlement of 75 households in the hundred of Forehoe. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of William de Warenne and Ralph de Beaufour.[2]
Deopham's parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and has a church tower dating back to the Fifteenth Century. The interior of the church was largely remodelled in the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries.[4]
Deopham's war memorial takes the form of a carved marble plaque embossed with a crown and crucifix inside St. Andrew's Church. The memorial lists the following names for the First World War: