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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishBriston All Saints 
HundredHolt 
Poor Law unionErpingham 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1689-19011689-19011691-19011682-1900


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:


Maps

Online maps of Briston or Burston are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

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