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'''Burnham Market''' is an English village and [[civil parish]] near the north coast of [[Norfolk]]. |
'''Burnham Market''' is an English village and [[civil parish]] near the north coast of [[Norfolk]]. It is one of [[The Norfolk Burnhams|the Burnhams]], a group of three adjacent villages that were merged: '''Burnham Sutton''', '''Burnham Ulph''' and '''Burnham Westgate'''. In 2022, Burnham Market was rated among the "20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland" by [[Condé Nast Traveler]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-20 |title=The 20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland |url=https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/beautiful-villages-uk |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=CN Traveller |language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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==Geography== |
==Geography== |
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According to the [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]], Burnham Market had a population of 877 people,<ref>City Population. (2022). Retrieved November 14, 2022. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/norfolk/E34001083__burnham_market/</ref> which fell to 724 people by the [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 census]].<ref>Ibid</ref> |
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Burnham Market is about {{convert|1|mi}} inland, about {{convert|5|mi|0}} west of [[Wells-next-the-Sea]], {{convert|12|mi}} north-east of [[Hunstanton]] and {{convert|10|mi|0}} north of [[Fakenham]]. The smaller villages of [[Burnham Deepdale]] and [[Burnham Norton]] are within {{convert|2|mi|0}} to the west and north of Burnham Market, whilst [[Burnham Overy]] and [[Burnham Thorpe]] are a similar distance to the east. [[North Creake]] is about {{convert|4|mi}} to the south. The larger town of [[King's Lynn]] is {{convert|20|mi}} to the south-west and the city of [[Norwich]] is {{convert|30|mi}} to the south-east.<ref>Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 251 – Norfolk Coast Central''. {{ISBN|0-319-21887-2}}.</ref> |
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The parish belongs to the [[Non-metropolitan district|district]] of [[King's Lynn and West Norfolk]].<ref>Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001) [https://web.archive.org/web/20170211032229/https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 18 October 2005.]</ref> |
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==History== |
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[[File:Burnham_Market,_Norfolk.jpg|thumb|Burnham Market in the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk]] |
[[File:Burnham_Market,_Norfolk.jpg|thumb|Burnham Market in the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk]] |
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Burnham Market's name is of [[Anglo-Saxon]] origin and derives from the [[Old English]] for settlement on the River Burn where there is a market.<ref>University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved November 14, 2022. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Burnham%20Thorpe</ref> |
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Burnham Market is close to the mouth of the [[River Burn, Norfolk|River Burn]] and the name Burnham probably derives from this. However another theory is that the town was a centre for the [[amber]] trade. As the name implies, historically Burnham had a market and so was considered a town, although the market had been discontinued several years before 1854.<ref>Francis White (1854). [http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/BurnhamMarket54.htm Francis White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Norfolk - Burnham Westgate (or Burnham Market). Retrieved 18 October 2005.]</ref> Today Burnham Market is normally seen as a village, although it is slightly larger and much busier than its immediate neighbours. |
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[[Image:Burnham marketmap 1946.png|thumb|left|A map of Burnham from 1946]] |
[[Image:Burnham marketmap 1946.png|thumb|left|A map of Burnham from 1946]] |
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In 1952, the [[West Norfolk Junction Railway]], which ran through the village, was closed. This railway had linked with [[Holkham]], [[Wells-next-the-Sea]], [[Hunstanton]] and [[Kings Lynn]]. The [[Burnham Market railway station|station]] still stands on the road to [[North Creake]]. |
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The village was served until 1952 by a railway originally built as the [[West Norfolk Junction Railway]]. It connected Burnham Market to the east with [[Holkham]] and [[Wells-next-the-Sea]], and to the west with several intermediate stations and a junction at [[Heacham]] with the line between [[Hunstanton]] and [[Kings Lynn]]. The [[Burnham Market railway station|station]] was located on the road to [[North Creake]], south of the village centre. The main station building and platform still exist. |
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==Governance== |
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Burnham is the name of the [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] which covers all the Norfolk Burnhams and surrounding areas. The total population at the 2011 census was 1,714.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13693578&c=PE31+8HW&d=14&e=62&g=6449049&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1440671396166&enc=1|title=Burnham ward population 2011|access-date=27 August 2011}}</ref> |
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[[File:St_Henry_Walpole_Catholic_Church,_Burnham_Market.jpg|thumb|St Henry Walpole Catholic Church, Burnham Market in the Diocese of East Anglia]] |
[[File:St_Henry_Walpole_Catholic_Church,_Burnham_Market.jpg|thumb|St Henry Walpole Catholic Church, Burnham Market in the Diocese of East Anglia]] |
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[[File:Burnham_Market.jpg|thumb|Burnham Market]] |
[[File:Burnham_Market.jpg|thumb|Burnham Market]] |
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[[Burnham Westgate Hall]] is a [[listed building|Grade II listed]] [[country house]] built in the 1780s by [[Sir John Soane]] for [[Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford]]. The Hall was built on the existing Polstede Hall, which had been built in the 1750s by [[Matthew Brettingham]] for [[Pinckney Wilkinson|Pinckney Wilkinson MP]].<ref>Zoopla. (2022). Retrieved November 14, 2022. http://content.zoopla.co.uk/8d868de37420be36aa190e87943429e002edea82.pdf</ref> |
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==Burnham Westgate Hall== |
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[[Burnham Westgate Hall]] is a [[listed building|Grade II* listed]] [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] [[English country house|country house]], built in 1783–1785 by [[Sir John Soane]], for [[Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Burnham Westgate Hall |url=http://content.zoopla.co.uk/8d868de37420be36aa190e87943429e002edea82.pdf}}</ref> It was a remodelling of the original Polstede Hall, which had been built in the 1750s by [[Matthew Brettingham]] for Pitt's father-in-law, [[Pinckney Wilkinson]], MP for [[Old Sarum]]. In 1783, Wilkinson gave the house to his daughter, Anne, on her marriage to Pitt. |
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Burnham Market is home to several churches. |
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'''St. Mary's Church''' St. Mary's Church is of [[Normans|Norman]] origin and is dedicated to [[Mary, mother of Jesus]]. St. Mary's was significantly remodelled in the fourteenth, fifteenth and nineteenth centuries and is currently [[Grade II listed|listed building]]. The church bells date to the seventeenth century.<ref>Rose, E. (1986). Retrieved November 15, 2022. https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF1767-St-Mary%27s-Church-Burnham-Westgate&Index=1581&RecordCount=61672&SessionID=d75d4e70-ea75-437f-86a7-c4767a1d3221</ref> |
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==Novelists== |
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The novelist sisters [[Anne Elliot (novelist)|Anne Elliot]] and Emma (writing as Margery Hollis) were living in Burnham Sutton by 1901. Anne Elliot died there in 1941.<ref>Victorian Fiction [http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=444 Retrieved 14 May 2018.]</ref> |
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'''All Saints' Church''' All Saints' Church is of [[Normans|Norman]] origin and was heavily remodelled in the fourteenth century, with further minor adjustments being made in the nineteenth century.<ref>Rose, E. (1981). Retrieved November 15, 2022. https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF1759-All-Saints%27-Church-Burnham-Ulph&Index=1571&RecordCount=57339&SessionID=19cf8f97-c96e-45e6-adf6-70d1eebf1275</ref> |
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The village has two [[Church of England parish church]]es. The larger is St Mary's at the west end of the marketplace (Westgate church). All Saints' is at the eastern end of the village – Sutton-cum-Ulph, as it incorporated the parish and some of the stone of St Ethelbert's at Burnham Sutton, some 400 yards to the south, when [[Horatio Nelson]]'s father Edmund was rector of both in the 1760s and 1770s. A third parish church near Burnham Market is St Margaret's, in the neighbouring parish of Burnham Norton. Its benefice was joined with St Mary's (Westgate) to form the new ecclesiastical parish of Burnham Market in 2012. The former churches, with the parishes of Burnham Overy and Burnham Thorpe (birthplace of Nelson), now form the single Burnhams benefice.<ref>Burnhams Benefice Parish. [http://www.burnhamsbenefice.org.uk/churches Churches]; [http://www.burnhamsbenefice.org.uk/church-locations Church Locations]. Retrieved 28 August 2017</ref> |
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'''St. Henry Walpole Catholic Church''' Burnham Market's Catholic Church was constructed in 1959 and is dedicated to [[Henry Walpole|Saint Henry Walpole]], an [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] Catholic martyr.<ref>Knott, S. (2005). Retrieved November 15, 2022. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burnhamrc/burnhamrc.htm</ref> The church conducts weekly [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] on a Friday and Sunday.<ref>Catholic Parish of Walsingham. (2022). Retrieved November 15, 2022. https://www.catholicparishofwalsingham.org/st-henry-walpole-burnham-market</ref> |
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==Notable residents== |
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There are two other places of worship in the village: a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Henry Walpole and a Methodist church. The former's Gospel Hall was put up for sale in 2015. |
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* [[Anne Elliot (novelist)|Anne Elliot]] – English writer and novelist<ref>Bassett, T. (2022). Retrieved November 15, 2022. http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=444</ref> |
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* Emma Elliot – English writer and novelist |
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* [[Sir Roger Martin, 5th Baronet|Sir Roger Martin]] – British nobleman |
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* [[Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings|Baroness Patricia Rawlings]] – British politician and antiquarian |
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Revision as of 14:14, 16 January 2024
| Burnham Market | |
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 St Mary's parish church | |
  Burnham Market Location within Norfolk | |
| Area | 18.43 km2 (7.12 sq mi) |
| Population | 877 (2011 Census) |
| • Density | 48/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TF834422 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Kings Lynn |
| Postcode district | PE31 |
| Dialling code | 01328 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Burnham Market is an English village and civil parish near the north coast of Norfolk. It is one of the Burnhams, a group of three adjacent villages that were merged: Burnham Sutton, Burnham Ulph and Burnham Westgate. In 2022, Burnham Market was rated among the "20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland" by Condé Nast Traveler in 2020.[1]
Geography
According to the 2011 census, Burnham Market had a population of 877 people,[2] which fell to 724 people by the 2021 census.[3]
The parish belongs to the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.[4]
History
Burnham Market's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for settlement on the River Burn where there is a market.[5]
In 1952, the West Norfolk Junction Railway, which ran through the village, was closed. This railway had linked with Holkham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Hunstanton and Kings Lynn. The station still stands on the road to North Creake.
Burnham Westgate Hall is a Grade II listed country house built in the 1780s by Sir John Soane for Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford. The Hall was built on the existing Polstede Hall, which had been built in the 1750s by Matthew Brettingham for Pinckney Wilkinson MP.[6]
In 1933, the Hall passed to the Royal British Legion and after the Second World War it was used as an old people's home. From 1990 onwards, it has become the private residence of Baroness Rawlings.[7]
Churches
Burnham Market is home to several churches.
St. Mary's Church St. Mary's Church is of Norman origin and is dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus. St. Mary's was significantly remodelled in the fourteenth, fifteenth and nineteenth centuries and is currently listed building. The church bells date to the seventeenth century.[8]
All Saints' Church All Saints' Church is of Norman origin and was heavily remodelled in the fourteenth century, with further minor adjustments being made in the nineteenth century.[9]
St. Henry Walpole Catholic Church Burnham Market's Catholic Church was constructed in 1959 and is dedicated to Saint Henry Walpole, an Elizabethan Catholic martyr.[10] The church conducts weekly Mass on a Friday and Sunday.[11]
Notable residents
- Anne Elliot – English writer and novelist[12]
- Emma Elliot – English writer and novelist
- Sir Mordaunt Martin – British nobleman
- Sir Roger Martin – British nobleman
- Baroness Patricia Rawlings – British politician and antiquarian
References
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- ^ "The 20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland". CN Traveller. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ City Population. (2022). Retrieved November 14, 2022. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/norfolk/E34001083__burnham_market/
- ^ Ibid
- ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001) Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 18 October 2005.
- ^ University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved November 14, 2022. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Burnham%20Thorpe
- ^ Zoopla. (2022). Retrieved November 14, 2022. http://content.zoopla.co.uk/8d868de37420be36aa190e87943429e002edea82.pdf
- ^ Country Life. (2011). Retrieved November 14, 2022. https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/country-houses-for-sale-and-property-news/an-exceptional-country-estate-in-norfolk-17593
- ^ Rose, E. (1986). Retrieved November 15, 2022. https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF1767-St-Mary%27s-Church-Burnham-Westgate&Index=1581&RecordCount=61672&SessionID=d75d4e70-ea75-437f-86a7-c4767a1d3221
- ^ Rose, E. (1981). Retrieved November 15, 2022. https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF1759-All-Saints%27-Church-Burnham-Ulph&Index=1571&RecordCount=57339&SessionID=19cf8f97-c96e-45e6-adf6-70d1eebf1275
- ^ Knott, S. (2005). Retrieved November 15, 2022. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burnhamrc/burnhamrc.htm
- ^ Catholic Parish of Walsingham. (2022). Retrieved November 15, 2022. https://www.catholicparishofwalsingham.org/st-henry-walpole-burnham-market
- ^ Bassett, T. (2022). Retrieved November 15, 2022. http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=444
External links
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Burnham Market.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burnham Market.
- Map sources for Burnham Market
- Burnham Market Village Plan, with detailed Ordnance Survey map
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Burnham Market.