Burgh St Margaret and St Mary, Norfolk

Description
Burgh St Margaret and St Mary, or Flegg Burgh, a parish in Norfolk, near the river Bure, 2 miles SW from Martham station on the Eastern and Midland railway, and 7 1/2 from Yarmouth station on the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office of the name of Fleggburgh, under Yarmouth; telegraph office, Martham. It had formerly a market. Acreage, 1700 ; population of the civil parish, 557 ; of the ecclesiastical with Billockby, 628. The living is a double rectory in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly value, £392 with residence. The church of St Margaret is an ancient building of flint, chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and that of St Mary is in ruins. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and some considerable charities.