Great Ryburgh

Coordinates: 52°48′30″N 0°54′04″E / 52.8083°N 0.9012°E / 52.8083; 0.9012
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Great Ryburgh
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townFakenham
Postcode districtNR21
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Norfolk
52°48′30″N 0°54′04″E / 52.8083°N 0.9012°E / 52.8083; 0.9012

Great Ryburgh is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ryburgh, in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 484.[1] On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Little Ryburgh to form "Ryburgh".[2]

The villages name means 'Rye town'.[3]

It is located about two miles south-east of the market town of

East Dereham to Fakenham and Wells-next-the-Sea. This line is proposed for restoration, as far as Fakenham, by the Norfolk Orbital Railway
.

The church of Great Ryburgh St. Andrew is one of 124 surviving round-tower churches in Norfolk.

The Boar Inn is located in Great Ryburgh and is a traditional English country inn, with low-beamed ceilings and an inglenook fireplace in the bar.

An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was discovered in 2016 by a Museum of London Archaeology excavation that was largely funded by Historic England.[5][6] The waterlogged conditions of the site led to the remarkable preservation of burials including 6 plank-lined graves and 81 hollowed tree-trunk coffins dating from the 7th-9th century AD. The evidence is this may have been a community of early Christians, including a timber structure thought to be a church or chapel.

References

  1. A Vision of Britain through Time
    . Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  2. ^ "The North Norfolk (Parishes) Order 1987" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  3. ^ http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Great%20and%20Little%20Ryburgh
  4. ^ Pollitt, Michael (24 January 2004). "Norfolk's maltsters to the world" (PDF). Hidden Norfolk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2005. Retrieved 9 March 2009.
  5. ^ "Great Ryburgh dig finds 81 'rare' Anglo-Saxon coffins". BBC News. England. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Exceptional Survival of Rare Anglo-Saxon Coffins". Historic England. Historic England. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.

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