Buxton is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

, in the Broadland district of the county of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nor ...

, England. Buxton is located between

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...

and Aylsham and is separated from Lamas by the

River Bure The River Bure is a river in the county of Norfolk, England, most of it in the Broads.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. . The Bure rises near Melton Constable, upstream of Aylsham, which was the original head ...

. In 2021 it had a population of 1295. In 1931 the parish had a population of 490. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished to form "Buxton with Lammas".

History

Buxton is of

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons happened wit ...

and

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

origin and derives from an amalgamation of

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th ...

and

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlement ...

for a settlement either named for 'Bucca' or deer. In the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

, Buxton was recorded as a settlement of 34 households in the hundred of South Erpingham. The principal landowner was Ralph de Beaufour. Buxton Watermill has stood in the village in some form since before the Domesday Book and was last rebuilt in 1754 by the local merchant, William Pepper. Nearby Dudwick Park is

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern I ...

amd was built for John Wright, a

Quaker Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abili ...

banker, in the Eighteenth Century. Wright's charitable donations to the village resulted in the construction of what is now Buxton Primary School and an institution for young offenders where the Rowan House currently stands. By the Nineteenth Century, Dudwick Park had passed to the Sewell family, another Quaker family, who further extended the village school and, in 1927, funded the construction of the Village Hall. In 1937, the house was passed to Percy Briscoe, a tea-planter from

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, who significantly remodeled the exterior. The village was home to a

workhouse In Britain, a workhouse () was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. (In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses.) The earliest known use of the term ''workhouse' ...

during the Eighteenth Century due to the provisions of the English Poor Laws. The foundations of the building still exist on the Buxton-Horstead Road.

St. Andrew's Church

Buxton's Parish Church is of Norman and is dedicated to

Saint Andrew Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Pete ...

. St. Andrew's was significantly remodelled in the Nineteenth Century with new stained glass being installed by Charles Edmund Clutterbuck, Thomas Willement and Ward and Hughes yet many of the

corbels In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the st ...

date from the Fourteenth Century.

Rail links

The former

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Ra ...

opened

Buxton Lamas railway station Buxton Lamas was a railway station in Buxton with Lamas, Norfolk. It was located near the Bure Valley Railway The Bure Valley Railway is a minimum gauge visitors' attraction in Norfolk, England. It was created on the original disused fu ...

in 1879, though this was subsequently closed in 1965. prior to closure of the line. The

Bure Valley Railway The Bure Valley Railway is a minimum gauge visitors' attraction in Norfolk, England. It was created on the original disused full-gauge bed of a defunct passenger service to incorporate a new, adjacent pedestrian footpath. The railway runs fro ...

, operates Buxton railway station which provides services to Wroxham and Aylsham.

Notable Residents

Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt (25 February 1788 – 20 December 1855) was a British master builder, notable for his employment in developing many of the historic streets and squares of London, especially in Belgravia, Pimlico and Bloomsbury. His great-great-g ...

- British builder and architect *

Anna Sewell Anna Sewell (; 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878)''The Oxford guide to British women writers'' by Joanne Shattock. p. 385, Oxford University Press. (1993) was an English novelist. She is known as the author of the 1877 novel ''Black Beauty'', her ...

- English novelist and author of Black Beauty

War Memorial

Buxton War Memorial takes the form of a

Celtic cross The Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France and Great Britain in the Early Middle Ages. A type of ringed cross, it became widespread through its use in the stone high crosses e ...

and is located in St. Andrew's Churchyard. It lists the following names for the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

: * Corporal Albert E. Earl (d.1917), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Corporal Arthur Goodson (d.1917), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Lance-Corporal Thomas J. Smith (d.1917), 1/5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Cyril Betts (1895-1914), 1/8th Battalion,

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland. Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...

* Private Benjamin D. Smith (1891-1916), 5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles * Private Horace Woodhouse (1900-1918), 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment * Private Edward F. Sword (d.1917), 17th Battalion,

Royal Fusiliers The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. It was known as the 7th Regiment of Foot until the Childers Reforms of 1881. The regiment served in many wars ...

* Private Albert H. Thirtle (1899-1918), 1st Battalion,

Hertfordshire Regiment The Hertfordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army. Originating in units of Rifle Volunteers formed in 1859, the regiment served in the Second Anglo-Boer War and the First and Second Worl ...

* Private Harry Barton (1885-1918), 101st Company, Labour Corps * Private John A. Abbs (1899-1918), 10th Battalion,

Lancashire Regiment The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army that had a very short existence. History The regiment was formed, as a consequence of defence cuts instigated by the 1957 Defence White Paper, b ...

* Private George W. Kerrison (d.1916), 1st Battalion,

Middlesex Regiment The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1966. The regiment was formed, as the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), in 1881 as part of the Childers R ...

* Private Robert Clarke (d.1917), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private George H. Goffin (1880-1920), 3rd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Herbert E. Lane (d.1918), 8th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Albert L. Cook (1895-1917), 1st Battalion,

Northamptonshire Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1960. In 1960, it was amalgamated with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's O ...

* Private Bertie C. Child (d.1918), 1/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers * Private William F. Norgate (1891-1917), 1/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers * Private Redcar G. Matthews (d.1917), 5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers * Private Cyril B. Tucker (d.1916), 5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers * Private Albert E. Wodehouse (1893-1916), 1/6th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers * Worker Mary M. Matthews (1891-1919),

Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC) from 9 April 1918, was the women's corps of the British Army during and immediately after the First World War. It was established in February 1917 and ...

Lowe, G and Smith, L. (2003). Retrieved November 19, 2022. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Buxton.html

References

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