Diss Family History Group

BURSTON is a village and parish and station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway, 2¾ miles north-by-east from Diss and 98½ from London, in the Southern division of the county, Diss hundred, petty sessional division and county court district, Depwade union, rural deanery of Redenhall, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a small building of flint, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: the tower fell in 1753: the porch was rebuilt and the roof repaired at a cost of about £300: the church affords 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1656. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £360, including 54 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1911 by the Rev. Charles Tucker Eland. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here. There are charities of £1 10s. yearly for the poor. In this parish is the manor of Winfarthing, belonging to the Earl of Albemarle C.B., K.C.V.O., M.V.O., V.D.: Heywood Hall manor, belonging to the trustees of the late Charles Layton esq.; and Brockdish Hall and Mildenhall manor, the property of Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt esq. Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp bart. of The Upper Close, Norwich, Sir Edward Mann bart. of Thelveton Hall, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the principal landowners. The soil is heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, turnips and mangold wurtzel. The area is 1,466 acres; rateable value, £1,961; the population in 1911 was 314.

Parish Clerk, William Ling.

Post Office. - Arthur Boulton, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Diss at 6.45 a.m. & 1.45 p.m. (callers only); dispatched at 10.55 a.m. & 6.40 p.m.; sundays, arrive at 6.30 a. m.; dispatched at 9.40 a.m. Diss is the nearest money order office; telegraph office at Railway station, with delivery on station premises only; this office is closed on sundays; the nearest telegraph office for delivery is at Diss, 2½ miles distant

Wall Letter Box at railway station cleared 6.35 p.m. week days only

Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1875, at a cost, with master’s house, of £850, & enlarged in 1895 at a further cost of £140, for 90 children; average attendance, 73; Mrs. A. K. Higdon, mistress

Railway Station, George Jessup Norman, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Eland Rev. Charles Tucker (rector), Rectory
Eldridge James Henry, Burston hall
COMMERCIAL.
Bolton Arthur Valentine, farmer
Boulton Arthur, grocer, & post office
Burdett Leslie, farmer
Carter William Dixon, farmer
Carter Wm. Eaton, farmr. Crown frm
Cole Alfred & Sons, farmers, Manor farm; & at Heywood hall, Diss & Winfarthing
Davey John, farmer
Fisher Charles King, farmer
Fisher John King, farmer
Ford Arthur, wheelwright
Ford Robert, farmer
Gill James, grocer
Goddard Eustace, Crown P.H.
Hucklesby & Sons, millers (wind & oil), Burston mills
Johnson Alfd. farmer, Manor Ho. frm
Ling Harry, boot maker
Ling William, farmer
Miller Henry G. farmer
Porcher John Thomas, carpenter
Prentice Benjamin, farmer
Prentice Richard, cowkeeper
Smith William & Son, millers, coal, corn & seed mers. Railway station
Sutton Adam, farmer
Wright Henry, wheelwright