Fleggburgh
| Fleggburgh | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St. Margaret's Church, Fleggburgh | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG445140 |
| Location: | 52°40’5"N, 1°36’54"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,088 (2021) |
| Post town: | Great Yarmouth |
| Postcode: | NR29 |
| Dialling code: | 01493 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Great Yarmouth |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Great Yarmouth |
Fleggburgh, also known as Burgh St Margaret, is a village in Norfolk, six miles north-west of Great Yarmouth and fourteen miles east of Norwich, bisected by the A1064 road. Its civil parish includes Clippesby and Billockby.
The village is on the A1064 road, between Acle and Caister-on-Sea and on the western edge of the Trinity Broads, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, within the Norfolk Broads. According to the 2021 census, Burgh St Margaret has a population of 1,088 people.
The village has one public house that remains in business; The Kings Arms has stood on its current site since the late-18th Century, except for a short period in the early-19th Century when a licence was refused to Mrs Mary Puxley on the grounds of aiding and assisting a riot that led to the cruel wounding and beating of Mr Robert Chasteney, a local surveyor.[1]
History
The alternative names, Burgh St Margaret and Fleggburgh, are of the same Old English origin.[2] In the Domesday Book, Burgh St Margaret is listed as a settlement of 63 households in the Hundred of West Flegg. In 1086, the village was divided between the East Anglian estates of The King, Roger Bigod, Bishop William of Thetford and St Benet's Abbey.[3]
During the Second World War, several pillboxes and a guardhouse were built across the parish to defend the crossing of the River Bure in the event of a German invasion of Great Britain.[4]
Churches
Fleggburgh's parish church, St Margaret, was built in the Nineteenth Century by the architect, Herbert John Green. St. Margaret's is located within the village on Main Road. It is a Grade II listed building.[5]
The interior holds a brass memorial to Richard Burton who served as Rector of the parish in the early-Seventeenth Century and stained-glass installed in the 1960s by Paul Jeffries, depicting Saint Margaret, St Luke and St Mary.[6]
Clippesby's church is dedicated to St Peter and is one of the 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. All Saints' Church, Billockby remains in use although it is partially ruined.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ "Kings Arms - Fleggburgh - Burgh St. Margaret". https://www.norfolkpubs.co.uk/norfolkb/burghstmargaret/burstmka.htm.
- ↑ Burgh St Margaret: Key to English Place-names
- ↑ [St Margaret Fleggburgh] in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "mnf22262 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf22262.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1372907: Church of St. Margaret (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghmargaret/burghmargaret.htm.