Alburgh is a village and

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in the English

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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort ...

. It lies about four miles (6 km) north-east of Harleston and 16 miles (26 km) south of

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Heritage

The earliest evidence of settlement is from the

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era. A

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near the church was excavated in the 19th century, when bones were removed. Little has been found from the

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, or the Roman or Saxon periods, but there are plentiful

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remains. The name Alburgh means either "old burial-mound/hill" or "Alda's burial-mound/hill". Some of the Church of All Saints, Alburgh, dates back to the 13th century. The noted church architect

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restored it in 1876, adding "pinnacles with little flying buttresses" and reworking the chancel. Today the church holds a service every Sunday as part of the Earsham benefice. Its ring of eight bells is among Norfolk's oldest. The churchyard is a conservation area. The former

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chapel was turned into a dwelling in the 1960s. The local pub, the ''Kings Head'', closed in 1956. Homersfield Bridge, which crosses the

River Waveney The River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The "ey" part of the name means "river" thus the name is tautological. Course The source of the River Wavene ...

between Alburgh and Homersfield, Suffolk, opened in 1870, making it the oldest surviving concrete bridge in Britain. Homersfield railway station, on the Waveney line and in the parish of Alburgh, opened in 1860 and closed in 1953. Apart from the church and the bridge, there are 17 other Grade II listed buildings in Alburgh, mostly residential. John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' wrote in 1870–72: "ALBURGH, a parish in Depwade district, Norfolk; on an affluent of the river Waveney, near the

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railway, 3½ miles NNE of Harleston. It has a post office under Harleston, and a fair on 21 June. Acres, 1,512. Real property, £3,699. Pop., 587. Houses, 130. The andedproperty is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the

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. Value, £395.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church has a large Norman porch. There are ica national school, and charities £240."

Governance

The civil parish with hamlets of Piccadilly Corner and Alburgh Street has an area of 6.42 sq. km. Its 2001 population of 349 in 149 households rose to 410 at the 2011 Census. Its parish council meets monthly. It lies in the

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South Norfolk South Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in Long Stratton. The population of the Local Authority District was 124,012 as taken at the 2011 Census. History The district was formed on 1 April 197 ...

.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001.
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
'. Retrieved 2 December 2005.

Amenities and firms

Alburgh is on the No. 84

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service between Norwich and Harleston, which runs in daytime, Monday to Friday. Alburgh with Denton CE VC Primary School has about 100 pupils. Among the regular events at the modern Village Hall are monthly film shows. There are sports clubs for

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and carpet bowls. Alburgh has two general stores, a brewery in Tunbeck Road, an ice cream maker, and garment-printer's.Retro Alle
Retrieved 3 March 2016.

War Memorial

The Alburgh War Memorial is located in All Saint's Church and holds the names of 19 men who died in the

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. They are listed as: * Captain George P. Osborn Springfield (1872-1914),

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* Second Lieutenant Humphrey Osborn Springfield (1887-1916), Warwickshire Yeomanry * Corporal T. Osborn Springfield (d.1916), 1st Troop, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars * Lance-Corporal H. R. Cower (d.1917) * Lance-Sergeant William D. Olley (1888-1915), 1st Battalion,

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* Rifleman James E. Hammond (d.1917), 3rd Battalion,

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. * Rifleman W. Websdale (d.1917), 10th Battalion,

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* Private Herbert G. Ray (1898-1917), 5th Battalion,

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* Private Harry W. Osborne (1889-1915), 1st Battalion,

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* Private H. M. Reeve (d.1918), 11st Battalion,

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* Private Arthur Elmar (d.1915), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private George C. E. Osborne (d.1917), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private H. G. Everett (1898-1917), 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Reginald J. Mitchell (1897-1917), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private J. E. Love (1893-1917), 6th Battalion,

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* Private Charles W. Clark (d.1915), 1st Battalion,

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* Private Robert Sadler (1896-1917), 7th Battalion,

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* Private Alfred V. Watson (1891-1917), 15th Battalion, Welch Regiment * Able Seaman Edwin J. Barrett (d.1917), ''

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" Furthermore, the plaque commemorating the

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holds the following names: * Lance-Corporal Herbert J. Barber (1921-1944), 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment * Lance-Corporal Edward J. Clarke (1916-1944), 9th Battalion,

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* Private John E. Welch (1916-1944), 10th Battalion,

Durham Light Infantry The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1968. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and ...

* Air Mechanic First Class J. H. or C. C. Batchelor (1922-1943), " HMS Dasher (D37)" * Able Seaman Spencer M. Welch (d.1940), "

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References

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Alburgh

External links

*
Alburgh, Norfolk village website
* {{authority control South Norfolk Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk