About us
A father and son building timber fencing across the West Country from a yard in Gillingham.
Norsemen Fencing is Samuel and Kai Cheeseman, father and son, working from a yard on the Dorset
and Wiltshire border. Samuel has fenced and built in timber across the region for two decades.
Kai joined him full time in 2025. Between them they take on the work that needs doing properly the first time.
Where the name came from
The name is not a marketing flourish. Samuel's great-grandmother, Katharine Elizabette Eilertsen, came from the Vega islands in Nordland, on the Norwegian coast.
She emigrated to the States, met Samuel's great-grandfather while he was travelling, and returned with him to England.
They kept a coaching inn at South Petherton and later settled in Kent,
in a house they named Vega after her home.
Norsemen carries that line forward. It also says something about the work: built to stand, built to last, built once.
Samuel
Samuel grew up on the land, working Kentish farms from the age of sixteen. He qualified in crop production and farm management, spent two years working in Australia, then came home and trained as a bench joiner.
He moved to Dorset in 2003 and has worked in fencing and timber building ever since, with a spell running an embroidery business while his sons were young so he could be around for them.
He came back to fencing full time around 2020 and has built a name locally as a high-quality fencer and a straightforward man to deal with.
Kai
Kai worked alongside Samuel through every school summer, then read economics at Plymouth expecting to follow the usual path.
The further in he got, the less it appealed. He had already run small clothing ventures and helped with his father's branding, and the pull toward building something of his own won out.
He came home. Since June 2025 the two of them have worked as a father and son team, growing Norsemen and handling the quoting, the site visits and the work on the ground between them.
How we work.
Two-man jobs run as two-man jobs. Larger projects scale the crew up. We don't subcontract. The
person you meet on the first site visit is the person who'll be on site on installation day.