Briston or Burston, Norfolk
Historical Description
Briston or Burston, a small town and a parish in Norfolk. The town stands on the river Bure, 1 mile E from Melton Constable station on the Eastern and Midland. railway, and 4 miles SSW of Holt. It has a post and money order office under Melton Constable (S.O.), which is the telegraph office. The parish comprises 2955 acres; population of the civil parish, 1110; of the ecclesiastical, with Little Borough and Melton Constable, 1503. There is a weekly market for stock and pigs held on Tuesdays, a fair on the 26 May, and a large cattle sale on the last Thursday in May. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £268 with residence. Patron,, Lord Hastings. The church is Decorated and Perpendicular English, and had formerly a round tower. There are Congregational, Free, Primitive, and Wesleyan Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Briston All Saints | |
Hundred | Holt | |
Poor Law union | Erpingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Briston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1689-1901 | 1689-1901 | 1691-1901 | 1682-1900 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Briston or Burston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Briston (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Briston or Burston are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.