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Burnham Market in the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. 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. [2] Burnham Market is not listed in the Domesday Book. In 1952, the West Norfolk Junction Railway, which ran through the village, was closed.
Burnham Market is a modern merging of three Burnhams: Burnham Sutton, Burnham Westgate and Burnham Ulph. Over the years those three central villages have merged to form the larger village and civil parish of Burnham Market , which forms the principal centre for the Burnhams and several other nearby villages.
Burnham Norton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Burnham Norton is located 19 miles (31 km) north-east of King's Lynn and 34 miles (55 km) north-west of Norwich . The village is one of the seven original Norfolk Burnhams .
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Burnham Norton Friary was a Carmelite (White Friars) friary near Burnham Market in Norfolk, England. It is now a ruin. It is now a ruin. The friary was founded by Sir William Calthorp and Sir Ralph Hemenhale in 1241, the first Carmelite monastery to be founded following the expulsion of the order from Mount Carmel in Sinai in 1238.
The villages are located about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Burnham Market, 22 miles (35 km) north of the town of King's Lynn and 31 miles (50 km) north-west of the city of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of 8.27 square miles (21.4 km 2 ) and in the 2011 census had a population of 797 in 406 households.
Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty ImagesDuring Prohibition, enforcing the nation’s liquor ban was a game of cat and mouse. Smugglers, speakeasies, and ...
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