Dickleburgh
| Dickleburgh | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 Dickleburgh Village Sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TM167824 |
| Location: | 52°23’47"N, 1°11’6"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,166 (2021) |
| Post town: | DISS |
| Postcode: | IP21 |
| Dialling code: | 01379 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Waveney Valley |
Dickleburgh is a village in Norfolk, in the south of the county, three and a half miles east of Diss and 17 miles south-west of Norwich.
The village pub is The Crown. Dickleburgh has a village shop with post office, plus a fish and chip shop.
The name 'Dickleburgh' is from the Old English Diclan burh, meaning "'Dicle's or Dicla's fortification".[1]
History
Through Dickleburgh runs the course of a Roman road, known as Pye Road, which ran from Venta Icenorum (by Caistor St Edmund) to Camulodunum (now Colchester).[2]
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Dickleburgh is listed as a settlement of 22 households in the hundred of Diss. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of St. Edmunds Abbey.[3]
In 1780 Dickleburgh Mill opened, which was turned into one of Britain's first steam-powered mills in 1834. The mill continued to expand throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, generating its own electricity and providing subsidised housing for employees in the village. The mill closed in 1988 with the land being bought for residential redevelopment.[4][5]
Parish church
Dickleburgh's church, All Saints on Norwich Road, dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The church is a Grade I listed building.[6]
Within All Saints is a surviving part of a mediæval rood screen, and a set of royal arms from the reign of King Charles II. It is fitted with stained-glass installed by Hardman & Co.[7]
Society and sport
- The Village Society
- The Luncheon Club
- Friends of Dickleburgh School
- Dickleburgh Bowls Club
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Dickleburgh) |
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ "mnf7947 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf7947.
- ↑ Dickleburgh in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "Dickleburgh & Burston Mill". https://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/dickleburgh-burston-wood-postmill.
- ↑ "Norfolk Mills - Dickleburgh Burston Wood post mill". https://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Steam-Mills/dickleburgh-steam.html.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1373199: Church of All Saints (Grade I listing)
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dickleburgh/dickleburgh.htm.