Alburgh is a village and

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in the English

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. 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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barrow 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 Richard Phipson 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 earliest attestation of the name is from 1275, ''Wahenhe'', from ''*wagen + ea'', meaning the river by a q ...

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 Bungay 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. The largest town is Wymondham, and the district also includes the towns of Costessey, Diss, Harleston, Hingham, Loddon and Long Stratton. The council was based in Long S ...

.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 route 84 Konectbus 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-printers.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), 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) * 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, Royal Dublin Fusiliers * Rifleman James E. Hammond (d.1917), 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. * Rifleman W. Websdale (d.1917), 10th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps * Private Herbert G. Ray (1898–1917), 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment * 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, Northamptonshire Regiment * Private Charles W. Clark (d.1915), 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters * 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), '' Armed trawler Ethel & Millie" Furthermore, the plaque commemorating the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

holds the following names: * Lance-Corporal Herbert J. Barber (1921–1944), 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment * Lance-Corporal Edward J. Clarke (1916–1944), 9th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom) * Private John E. Welch (1916–1944), 10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry * Air Mechanic First Class J. H. or C. C. Batchelor (1922–1943), " HMS Dasher (D37)" * Able Seaman Spencer M. Welch (d.1940), " HMS Whirlwind (D30)""

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