Description
Burnham-Norton, a parish in Norfolk, 1 mile N of Burnham Market station on the G.E.R., and 6 miles W of Wells. Post town, Burnham Market, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2325 with 1158 of foreshore and water; population, 139. A Carmelite priory was founded here in 1241 by Sir Ralph de Hampnall and Sir William de Calthorp, and given at the dissolution to Lord Cobham. Bale the historian was prior of it. The living is a divided rectory, annexed partly to the rectory of Burnham-Westgate and partly to that of Burnham-Sutton, in the diocese of Norwich. The church, which is half a mile from the village, stands on a hill fronting the sea, and is a structure of flint in the Perpendicular style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
