Fleggburgh

{{Short description|Village in Norfolk, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|52.668|1.615|display=inline,title}} | label_position = top | os_grid_reference = TG445140 | official_name = Burgh Saint Margaret | population = 1,088 | population_ref = (2021) | shire_district = Great Yarmouth | shire_county = Norfolk | region = East of England | civil_parish = Burgh St Margaret | constituency_westminster = Great Yarmouth | postcode_district = NR29 | postcode_area = NR | post_town = GREAT YARMOUTH | dial_code = 01493 | london_distance = {{convert|108|mi}} | static_image_name = St Margaret, Burgh St Margaret, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 312304.jpg | static_image_width = | static_image_caption = St. Margaret's Church, Burgh St Margaret | area_total_sq_mi = 4.62 }}

'''Fleggburgh''', also known as '''Burgh St Margaret''', is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is {{convert|6|mi}} north-west of Great Yarmouth and {{convert|14|mi}} east of Norwich, bisected by the A1064 road. It includes the former parishes of Clippesby and Billockby.

==History== Burgh's St. Margaret's and Fleggburgh's names are both of Anglo-Saxon origin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Key to English Place-names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Burgh%20St.%20Margaret |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref> In the Domesday Book, Burgh St. Margaret is listed as a settlement of 63 households in the hundred of West Flegg. In 1086, the village was divided between the East Anglian estates of King William I, Roger Bigod, Bishop William of Thetford and St Benet's Abbey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Burgh [St Margaret] {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TG4414/burgh-st-margaret/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=opendomesday.org}}</ref>

During the Second World War, several pillboxes and a guardhouse were built across the parish to defend the crossing of the River Bure in the event of a German invasion of Great Britain.<ref>{{Cite web |title=mnf22262 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer |url=https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf22262 |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk}}</ref>

==Geography== Fleggburgh is located on the A1064 road, between Acle and Caister-on-Sea and on the western edge of the Trinity Broads, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, within The Broads National Park. According to the 2021 census, Fleggburgh has a population of 1,088 people which shows an increase from the 948 people recorded in the 2011 census.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fleggburgh (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/admin/great_yarmouth/E04006268__fleggburgh/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref>

==Churches== Fleggburgh's parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret and was built in the Nineteenth Century by the architect, Herbert John Green. St. Margaret's is located within the village on Main Road and has been Grade II listed since 1962.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Church of St. Margaret, Fleggburgh - 1372907 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1372907 |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=historicengland.org.uk }}</ref>

The interior holds a brass memorial to Richard Burton who served as Rector of the parish in the early-Seventeenth Century and stained-glass installed in the 1960s by Paul Jeffries, depicting Saint Margaret, Saint Luke and Saint Mary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Norfolk Churches |url=http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghmargaret/burghmargaret.htm |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=www.norfolkchurches.co.uk}}</ref>

Clippesby's church is dedicated to St Peter and is one of the 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. All Saints' Church, Billockby remains in use although it is partially ruined.

==Amenities== The majority of local children attend Fleggburgh Church of England Primary School.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ofsted Communications Team |date=2022-07-25 |title=Find an inspection report and registered childcare |url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/121081 |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=reports.ofsted.gov.uk}}</ref> The village has one public house that remains in business; ''The Kings Arms'' has stood on its current site since the late-18th Century, except for a short period in the early-19th Century when a license was refused to Mrs Mary Puxley on the grounds of aiding and assisting a riot that led to the cruel wounding and beating of Mr Robert Chasteney, a local surveyor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=KINGS ARMS - FLEGGBURGH - BURGH St. MARGARET |url=https://www.norfolkpubs.co.uk/norfolkb/burghstmargaret/burstmka.htm |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=www.norfolkpubs.co.uk}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category|Fleggburgh}} * [https://fleggburghpc.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/ Fleggburgh Parish Council] {{oscoor gbx|TG445140}}. *[http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/b/burgh_st_margaret/ Information from Genuki Norfolk] on Burgh St Margaret.

Category:Villages in Norfolk Category:Borough of Great Yarmouth Category:Civil parishes in Norfolk