Buxton is a village in the parish of Buxton with Lamas in the English county of

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. Buxton is located south-east of

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and north of

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History

Buxton is of

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and

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origin; it derives from an amalgamation of

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and

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

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, Buxton was recorded as a settlement of 34 households in the

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of South Erpingham. The principal landowner was Ralph de Beaufour. In 1931, the parish had a population of 490. On 1 April 1935, the parish was abolished to form ''Buxton with Lamas''. 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

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and was built for John Wright, a

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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; in 1927, they funded the construction of the village hall. In 1937, the house was passed to Percy Briscoe, a tea-planter from

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

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during the eighteenth century due to the provisions of the

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. The foundations of the building still exist on the Buxton-Horstead road.

Geography

According to the 2021 census, Buxton, including Lamas, has a population of 1,642 people which shows a slight decrease from the 1,684 people recorded in the 2011 census. Buxton is separated from Lamas by the River Bure.

St. Andrew's Church

Buxton's parish church is dedicated to

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and dates to the Fourteenth Century. St. Andrew's church is located at the junction between Aylsham Road and Mill Street and has been Grade II listed since 1961. The church was significantly remodelled in the 1850s with stained-glass depicting the Nativity,

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and the Ascension designed by Charles Clutterbuck as well as depictions of the

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and the Raising of Lazarus by

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and other works by

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. A new bell that commemorates the

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was hoisted in April 2023. It is the only one in the United Kingdom that carries the Queen's Platinum Jubilee dedication.

Transport

Buxton Lamas railway station was opened in July 1879 by the

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, which connected the village to

, and beyond. It was closed to passengers in September 1952 and then to freight in April 1965. The Bure Valley Railway now runs a heritage miniature line through the village. A new station, Buxton railway station, provides services to and . Bus routes that serve Buxton are operated by

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, Our Bus and Feline Executive Travel. Destinations include Norwich,

Wroxham Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres, and in 2001, had a population of 1,532 in 666 households. A reduced population of 1,502 in 653 household ...

and

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Notable Residents

* John Stubbs (1541 – after 25 September 1589) was an English Puritan pamphleteer *

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. Background The s ...

- (1788-1855) builder and architect, born in Buxton. * Anna Sewell- (1820-1878) novelist and author of Black Beauty, lived in Buxton.

Governance

Buxton is an

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for local elections and is part of the

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Broadland Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. Its council is based at the Broadland Business Park on the outskirts of Norwich. The district includes the towns of Acle, Aylsham, Reepham, Spro ...

. The village's national constituency is Broadland and Fakenham which has been represented by the Conservative Party's Jerome Mayhew MP since 2019.

War Memorial

Buxton's war memorial is a stone

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located in St. Andrew's Churchyard which has been Grade II listed since 2017 and is shared with Lamas. The following men from Buxton fell during the

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References

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