Brumstead

Infobox UK place
official_name= Brumstead
country= England
region= East of England
shire_district= North Norfolk
shire_county= Norfolk
civil_parish= Brumstead CP
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static_image_caption =Brumstead Village sign
population= 84 (parish, 2001 census)
population_density=
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latitude= 52.7907
longitude= 1.52186
post_town= NORWICH
postcode_area= NR
postcode_district= NR12
dial_code= 01692
constituency_westminster=
london_distance= convert|134|mi|km

Brumstead is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk [Ordnance Survey (2005). "OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads". ISBN 0-319-23769-9.] . The village is 15.3 miles North East of Norwich, 17.6 miles south south east of Cromer and 134 miles north-east of London. The village lies 1.2 miles north of the town of Stalham.The nearest railway station is at North Walsham for the Bittern Line which runs between Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. The l parish had in 2001 census, a population of 84. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk. The village is situated on the route of the B1159 that runs between the town of Cromer and the the town of Stalham [County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, page 229 ISBN 978 1 84348 614 5] .

ituation

The parish of Brumstead covers an area of approxamatly 790 acres. The land is flat and at its highest is only 10 meters above sea level. The land is arable and very open with very few hedges. The parish is bound to the east by the Parish of Ingham and on the north west by the Parish of East Ruston. The northern boundary is with Happisburgh Common and Witton In the middle of the parish on the higher ground stand the surviving manorial Hall and Church.

History

Brumstead has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085 [The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde,Norfolk page 187, Brumstead, ISBN 1858334403] . In the great book Brumstead is recorded by the names "Brumestade", and "Brunestade". The main landholders was Roger Bigot. The main tenant is said to be Robert from Roger Bigot. The survey also mentions that there were 30 goats, a church and a mill. There was a "pannage" or woodland for 16 pigs. In the survey the size of the local woodland was given as to the number of swine the woodland could support [The Normans in Norfolk, By Sue Margeson, Fabienne Seillier and Andrew Rogerson, Pub:1994, Page 100, ISBN 0 903101 62 9] .The name Brumstead is believed to derive from the "place of broom".

The village has also been known for hundreds of years as BrunsteadFact|date=September 2008, as old maps demonstrate. Brunstead is also the name by which the village is known locally, and the name on the village sign.

References

External links

* [http://www.wilcox53.freeserve.co.uk/1841census.htm 1837 map of Brumstead]
* [http://www.wilcox53.freeserve.co.uk/ The History of Brumstead]