Sheringham (/ˈʃɛrɪŋəm/; population 7,367) is a seaside town and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England.

[2] The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban District Council, is Mare Ditat Pinusque Decorat, Latin for "The sea enriches and the pine adorns".

Long lining for cod and the catching of herring began to become less important in the second half of the century, as did whelking.

On Saturdays throughout the year there is a popular market in the car park next to the railway station which attracts large crowds even out of the holiday season.

The Sheringham Little Theatre has a wide range of productions on throughout the year including a well-established summer repertory season running from July to September, and a popular pantomime at Christmas; in the foyer is a coffee shop with display of art by local artists.

[12] The town's museum now known as The Mo includes a collection of old lifeboats, various displays, a viewing tower and houses the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm visitor centre.

Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (1961–90) an Oakley Class lifeboat, Sheringham's last offshore boat.

Sheringham railway station is the northern terminus on the Bittern Line, the National Rail route to Cromer and Norwich.

[18] The town is served by the local newspapers, North Norfolk News and Eastern Daily Press.

[19][20] The Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph, on Cromer Road was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

In 1901 a donation of over £3,000 by Catherine Deterding, the wife of the managing director and founder of the Shell Oil Company, enabled the purchase of land around an existing chapel to build a new church.

The décor is a mixture of both the arts and crafts movement and industrial Gothic, a signature of Gibert Scott's style.

There are some good pieces of early 20th century devotional art much of which was imported from the studio and workshop of Ferdinand Stuflesser in the Austrian Tyrol.

The Stations of the Cross, ordered from Stuflesser, spent the First World War in the hold of a German freighter impounded at Genoa.

The memorial to the men and women of Sheringham and Beeston Regis who died in military service during the two world wars is located at grid reference TG155433 on the traffic island at the intersection of the Boulevard, St Nicholas Place and the Esplanade.

[26] The Oddfellows Hall on the Lifeboat Plain, built in 1867, was the original RNLI Lifeboat station and a gathering place for fishermen and boat builders, and has over the years been used as a craft centre, used to exhibit a model railway, and to display a model village.

Sheringham nestles under the nearby hill of Beeston Bump, a geological SSSI which was the site of one of the Second World War secret Y-stations.

The Bump is a kame, a glacial deposit that began forming between 10,000 and 15,000 years[27] ago at the end of the latest Ice Age.

It is a vital part of the protection of the town against the natural erosion that occurs along the North Norfolk coast.

In front of the sea wall are groynes, armoured at their bases with large blocks of natural rock, which prevent long shore drift.

From there a timber revetment and groyne system, designed and constructed in 1976, runs eastwards for 2 km (just over a mile) to West Runton Gap.