Burnham Norton is a village and

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in the

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, one of the Burnhams, an adjacent group in the northernmost part of Norfolk, on the A149 some 2 km north of the larger village of

Burnham Market Burnham Market is an English village and civil parish near the north coast of Norfolk. It is one of the Burnhams, a group of three adjacent villages that were merged: Burnham Sutton, Burnham Ulph and Burnham Westgate. In 2022, Burnham Market ...

, 35 km north-east of King's Lynn and 60 km north-west of

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.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central''. . "Burnham" means "Homestead/village on the River Burn" or perhaps, "hemmed-in land on the River Burn". "Norton", meaning "North farm/settlement", distinguishes it from the other Norfolk Burnhams.

Inhabitants

The civil parish has an area of 14.27 km.² In the 2001 census it had a population of 76 in 37 households. The 2011 census population of 173 was estimated at 156 in 2019. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001).
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
'. Retrieved 2 December 2005. The village is located close to the coast, and overlooks the tidal Norton Marshes and

Scolt Head Island NNR Scolt Head Island is an offshore barrier island between Brancaster and Wells-next-the-Sea in north Norfolk. It is in the parish of Burnham Norton and is accessed by a seasonal ferry from the village of Overy Staithe. The shingle and sand islan ...

Church of St Margaret

The church of Burnham Norton St Margaret is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in

, and is a

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.Moore, C.N. St Margaret's Church, Burnham Norton, with notes on its Rectors, the Carmelite Friary and Norton village, Seeley, Wells n.d. but 1978. David Jamieson VC is buried in the churchyard, as are Lady Margaret Douglas-Home, who was a great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and

Richard Woodget Richard Woodget (21 November 1845 – 5/6 March 1928) was an English sea captain, best known as the master of the famous sailing clipper ''Cutty Sark'' during her most successful period of service in the wool trade between Australia and the Unit ...

, master of the ''

Cutty Sark ''Cutty Sark'' is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period ...

''.

References

External links

St Margaret's on the European Round Tower Churches Website
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Information from Genuki Norfolk
on Burnham Norton.

on Burnham Norton. {{authority control Villages in Norfolk King's Lynn and West Norfolk Populated coastal places in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk