Norfolk: Burston

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Burston is about 3 miles N.N.E. of Diss.

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

The parish is in the deanery of Redenhall, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church Records

Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Burston was in Depwade Registration District.

Gazetteers and Directories

Burston is in Diss hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Annual inclosure act, 1867.
An act to authorize the inclosure of certain lands in pursuance of a special report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales: 12th August 1867.
[London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Depwade Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Burston became part of the Depwade Union, and the workhouse was at Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market).

Schools

The Burston School Strike: Museum, background, events, people, pictures, etc.
Edwards, Bertram: The Burston School strike.
[ISBN 085315287X, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1974]
Higdon, Thomas George: The Burston rebellion.
[Scole Common: Trustees of the Burston Strike School, 1984. Originally pub. 1910s]
Trustees of Burston Strike School: The Burston Strike School: the story of the longest strike in history, 1914-1939.
[ISBN 0951468804, Diss, Norfolk, 1991]
Zamoyska, Betka: The Burston rebellion.
[ISBN 0563203897, London, British Broadcasting Corporation, Ariel books, 1985]

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