Burston, Norfolk
Historical Description
Burston, a parish in Norfolk, on an affluent of the river Waveney, with a station on the G.E.R., 3 miles NNE of Diss. It has a post office under Diss, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1466; population, 375. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a flint structure in good condition, with round tower and octagonal turret.
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 | Burston St. Mary | |
Hundred | Diss | |
Poor Law union | Depwade |
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 Burston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1655-1901 | 1655-1901 | 1646-1837 | 1654-1903 |
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 Burston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Burston (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of 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.