Burnham Deepdale is a village on the north coast of the

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. Burnham Deepdale is in the

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Brancaster Brancaster is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Brancaster comprises Brancaster itself, together with Brancaster Staithe and Burnham Deepdale. The three villages form a more ...

, along with

Brancaster Staithe Brancaster Staithe is a village on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. Brancaster Staithe merges with Burnham Deepdale, forming one village. Brancaster Staithe is in the civil parish of Brancaster, together with Burnham Deepdal ...

. The three villages form a more or less continuous settlement along the A149, at the edge of the

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marshland and the Scolt Head Island National Nature Reserve.

History

Burnham Deepdale's name is of

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origin and derives from the Old English for a settlement along the River Burn with a deep valley.

Geography

The village is one of the original seven Burnhams, which include

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, Burnham Sutton,

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and

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St Mary's Church

Burnham Deepdale's Parish church is one of Norfolk's 124 remaining Anglo-Saxon round-tower churches, and is dedicated to

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. St Mary's was significantly remodelled in the 1870s by

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Buildings and amenities

Burnham Deepdale is home to the 'Deepdale Cafe'. Deepdale Cafe. (2022). Retrieved November 14, 2022. https://www.dalegatemarket.co.uk/deepdale-cafe/ Both Burnham Deepdale and Brancaster offer accommodation in holiday cottages, hostels, camping, hotels and bed & breakfasts. Village life centres on the harbour and its thriving fishing and sailing community.

Notable residents

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- English actor, director and producer

War Memorial

Burnham Deepdale's War Memorial takes the form of a shrine located in St Mary's churchyard. It lists the following names for the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fig ...

: * Chief-Stoker Robert I. Winterborne (1878-1917), '' HMS Vanguard'' * Sergeant Harold N. D. Guthrie (1894-1917), 7th Battalion,

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* Lance-Corporal Albert J. West (1893-1916), 8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment * Lance-Corporal Bede Guthrie (1896-1917), 1/5th Battalion,

Gloucestershire Regiment The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. It traced its origins to Colonel Gibson's Regiment of Foot, which was raised in 1694 and later became the ...

* Private Henry Mitchell (1882-1917), 8th Battalion,

Bedfordshire Regiment The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment was the final title of a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was originally formed in 1688. After centuries of service in many conflicts and wars, including both the First and Second World Wa ...

* Private Robert Mack (d.1916), 8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment * Private Herbert Martins (1881-1916), 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment * Private Percy Williamson (d.1918), 11th Battalion,

Royal Sussex Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot ...

* Private Herbert Hubbard (d.1917), 1st Battalion,

Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...

* Private Russell Sutherland (1896-1917), 120th Company,

Machine Gun Corps The Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in the First World War. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use ...

* Private William J. Billing (d.1916), 7th Battalion,

Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

* Private Herbert Youngs (1895-1915), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Burton P. Loose (1895-1918), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment And, the following for the

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: * Sergeant Sidney A. J. Mahoney (1914-1944), 10th Battalion,

Royal Berkshire Regiment The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was created in 1881, as the Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), by ...

* Gunner Gordon B. Stringer (1920-1944), 2nd (Medium) Regiment,

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

* Trooper Arthur Osborne (d.1941),

1st Royal Tank Regiment The 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army. It is part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps and operationally under 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. History Formation The regimen ...

Royal Armoured Corps The Royal Armoured Corps is the component of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle. It includes most of the ...

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