Burgh St Peter

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Burgh St Peter
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St. Mary's Church
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Burgh St Peter
Location within Norfolk
Area8.41 km2 (3.25 sq mi)
Population290 (2021)
  Density 34/km2 (88/sq mi)
OS grid reference TM4693
Civil parish
  • Burgh St Peter
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Beccles
Postcode district NR34
Dialling code 01502
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
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52°29′03″N1°38′20″E / 52.48403°N 1.63902°E / 52.48403; 1.63902

Burgh St Peter is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Burgh St Peter is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Beccles and 17 miles (27 km) south-east of Norwich.

History

Burgh St Peter's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for St. Peter's fortification. [1]

Burgh St Peter is not listed in the Domesday Book and it is likely that the village was included in the entry for Wheatacre. [2]

Geography

According to the 2021 census, Burgh St Peter has a population of 290 people which shows a slight increase from the 274 people recorded in the 2011 census. [3]

Burgh St Peter is located along the course of the River Waveney.

St. Mary's Church

The village's first parish church was presumably dedicated to Saint Peter. Its ruins were about 14 mile (400 m) southwest of the present parish church, but have disappeared. [4]

The present parish church is next to the Waveney about 2 miles (3 km) east of the village. It is built of flint with some red brickwork. Its earliest parts are 13th-century, including the north and south doors of the nave. The chancel, piscina, sedilia and some of the windows are early 14th-century. The baptismal font is late 14th-century [4] and the timber frame of the nave roof is 15th-century. The chancel roof is newer, but is continuous with that of the nave. Both are thatched. [5]

In the 16th century work began on a west tower of flint with angle buttresses of brick. It is not clear if it was ever completed, but by the late 18th century it was reported to be "ruinous".

In 1793 Rev. Samuel Boycott, who was both lord of the manor and vicar of the parish, was granted a faculty by the Diocese of Norwich to rebuild or complete the tower as his mausoleum. The result is an unusual, possibly unique Georgian Gothick brick tower in which each stage is smaller than those below. [6]

The pulpit was installed in 1811, again at the expense of the Boycott family. [6] A rood screen was added in the late 19th [5] or early 20th century. [6] St Mary's is a Grade II* listed building. [5]

Windmills

Burgh St Peter had two tower mills. One ground corn and the other pumped water to drain the land.

House created from the remains of Burgh St Peter windmill Burgh St Peter windmill-geograph.org.uk-1947552.jpg
House created from the remains of Burgh St Peter windmill

The corn mill was a red brick tower built about 1825. It was five storeys high and had four sails. By 1872 an auxiliary steam engine had been installed to work the mill when there was too little wind. By 1937 it was out of use and had lost one pair of sails. It was in a similar condition in 1949, but by 1989 the remaining sails had been removed and the tower had been reduced to three storeys. It has now been converted into part of a house. [7]

The pumping mill was also a brick tower with four sails. It was still intact in 1920. [8]

Charles Boycott

Caricature of Charles Boycott by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) for Vanity Fair in 1881 Charles Cunningham Boycott (Vanity Fair).jpg
Caricature of Charles Boycott by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) for Vanity Fair in 1881

Charles Boycott, grandson of Rev. Samuel Boycott, was born at Burgh St Peter in 1832 and is buried here. Whereas his father and grandfather were ordained into the Church of England, from 1849 Charles was a captain in the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot serving in Ireland. In 1852 he left the Army and became a farmer outside Ballinrobe, County Mayo in Connacht. In 1873 he became a tenant and the land agent of the Earl of Erne, who was an absentee landlord.

A poor harvest in 1880 led to a rent dispute between the Earl and his poorer tenants. Boycott tried to evict the defaulters but was resisted, and Boycott's workforce either deserted him or was forced out of his service by his opponents, leaving his crops unharvested. Despite help with his harvest by Orange Order volunteers from two counties in Ulster, and protection by the Royal Irish Constabulary and a detachment of the 19th Royal Hussars, Boycott found his position untenable and left Ireland under military escort. The incident led both to land reform in Ireland and to Boycott's name becoming a verb for "a systematic refusal of normal commercial or social relations". [9]

In 1886 Boycott became a land agent at Flixton in Suffolk. He died there in 1897 and was buried at Burgh St Peter, where his nephew Rev. Arthur St John Boycott conducted his funeral.

Governance

Burgh St Peter is part of the electoral ward of Thurlton for local elections and is part of the district of South Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is South Norfolk which has been represented by the Labour's Ben Goldsborough MP since 2024.

Notable Residents

War Memorial

The men who died in the First World War and Second World War are listed on the war memorial in St. Mary's Churchyard in nearby Aldeby. [10] The following men listed on the memorial were from Burgh St Peter and died during the First World War: [11]

RankNameUnitDate of DeathBurial
Pte.Herbert Gibbs2nd Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment 9 Oct. 1917 Tyne Cot
B1CErnest G. Barber HMS Dreadnought 15 May 1915Osmondwall Cemetery, Hoy

And, the following from the Second World War:

RankNameUnitDate of DeathBurial
AC2Royal C. Bailey Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 20 Oct. 1944St. Mary's Churchyard, Burgh St. Peter

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References

  1. "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  2. "Burgh-St-Peter-(Parish-Summary) - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  3. "Burgh St. Peter (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  4. 1 2 Pevsner 1962, p. 103.
  5. 1 2 3 Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade II*) (1304545)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 "St Mary, Burgh St Peter". Norfolk Churches. Simon Knott. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  7. "Burgh St Peter towermill". Norfolk Windmills. Jonathan Neville. 2005. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  8. "Burgh St Peter drainage mill". Norfolk Windmills. Jonathan Neville. 2005. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  9. Brown 1993, p. 270.
  10. "Aldeby War Memorial, Aldeby - 1442286 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  11. "Geograph:: Bodham to Bylaugh :: War Memorials in Norfolk". www.geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2024.

Sources and further reading

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A river cruiser turning on the River Waveney at Seven Mile Carr, in Burgh St Peter parish southeast of the village

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