Lingwood and Burlingham is a

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in the

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, comprising the large village of

Lingwood Lingwood is a village and former civil parish, east of Norwich, now in the parish of Lingwood and Burlingham, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. In 2011 the built-up area had a population of 2,719 and the built-up area ...

together with the smaller villages of Burlingham Green, North Burlingham and South Burlingham. The villages are all within of each other, some equidistant from the town of

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and the city of

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. Burlingham House is a Georgian Grade II listed manor house, the former seat of the Jary family, and is now a care home. Burlingham Hall (now demolished) was the seat of the Burroughes family, bought with 3500 acres in 1919 by Norfolk County Council as part of its farming estate. The civil parish was created in 1935, by the merger of the ancient parishes of ''Lingwood'', ''Burlingham St Andrew'', ''Burlingham St Edmond'' and ''Burlingham St Peter''. It has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 2,504 in 1,047 households, increasing to a population of 2,643 in 1,131 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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Broadland Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. The population of the local authority district taken at the 2011 Census was 124,646. Its council is based in Thorpe St Andrew. In 2013, Broadland wa ...

. Lingwood is served by

Lingwood railway station Lingwood railway station is on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, serving the village of Lingwood, Norfolk. It is down the line from on the route to and is situated between and . Its three-letter station code is LGD. It is managed b ...

on the

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. The name Lingwood originates from "Lingwoode", the first name given to the area, meaning "slope of a wood". The village was first noted in 1190. The name Burlingham means 'Homestead/village of Baerla's/Byrla's people'. The exact form of the personal name is uncertain.

Notable residents

* Tracey Witcher, Barrow Girl and Pearly Queen. *

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Notes

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Burlingham

External links

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