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Briston
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Briston is a village, civil parish, and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. It is south-west of Holt and north-west of Norwich.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Briston is referenced by 153 other articles, and connects out to county of England, civil parish and London.
It is catalogued under topics including Civil parishes in Norfolk, North Norfolk and Villages in Norfolk.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- North Norfolk
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 3,057
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Briston
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.shire_district
- North Norfolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Norfolk
- UK place.civil_parish
- Briston CP
- UK place.static_image
- Briston Village sign, Norfolk.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Briston Village Sign
- UK place.population
- 2,548
- UK place.population_ref
- (parish, 2021 census)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 11.96
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TG060320
- UK place.post_town
- MELTON CONSTABLE
- UK place.postcode_area
- NR
- UK place.postcode_district
- NR24
- UK place.dial_code
- 01263
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North Norfolk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- North Norfolk
- Population
- 2439
- Area
- 11.96
- Image
- All Saints' Church Briston, Norfolk.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01263
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- Commons category
- Briston
- OS grid reference
- TG060320
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Religion
- Village amenities
- References
- External links
Briston is a village, civil parish, and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. It is south-west of Holt and north-west of Norwich.
==History== In the Domesday Book, Briston is recorded as consisting of 22 households. The principal landowners were William the Conqueror and William de Warenne, who owned of land from which had been previously the property of Toke, a Saxon Thegn who had been evicted after the defeat of the Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings. This land was farmed by three Free Men or and a further was farmed by fourteen bordars. There was woodland for 20 pigs which was valued at 16 shillings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Briston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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