Great Ryburgh

Human settlement in England

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 Fakenham. The River Wensum flows through the village. The village has a large maltings which has been producing malt on a traditional malting floor for two centuries.^[4] The village and maltings were formerly served by Ryburgh station on the Great Eastern Railway branch from Wymondham and 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

^ "Population statistics Great Ryburgh CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
^ "The North Norfolk (Parishes) Order 1987" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
^ http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Great%20and%20Little%20Ryburgh
^ 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.
^ "Great Ryburgh dig finds 81 'rare' Anglo-Saxon coffins". BBC News. England. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
^ "Exceptional Survival of Rare Anglo-Saxon Coffins". Historic England. Historic England. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.