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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 Overy is a civil parish on the north coast of Norfolk, England. In modern times a distinction is often made between the two settlements of Burnham Overy Town , the original village adjacent to the medieval parish church and now reduced to a handful of houses, and Burnham Overy Staithe , a rather larger hamlet about 1-mile (1.6 km) away ...
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Burnham Norton's war memorial is a stone celtic cross located on Burnham Market which has been Grade II listed since 2018. The memorial lists war dead from Burnham Norton as well as Burnham Westgate, Burnham Sutton and Burnham Market. The following soldiers from Burnham Norton died during the First World War: [11]
Burnham Market was the principal intermediate station on the West Norfolk branch, serving the largest settlement between Heacham and Wells. Its importance was to decline towards the end of the nineteenth century as it shed its urban functions to become the village it is today.
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.
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