Briston
Briston is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk that contains the hamlet of Briston Common. The village is 11 mi east north east of the town of Fakenham, 13.3 mi west south west of Cromer, 20.3 mi north north west of the city of Norwich, and 125 mi north north east of London. The village is situated on the route of the B1354 that runs between the A148 at Thursford and the B1149 at Saxthorpe.
Briston's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a settlement or farmstead near to a landslip.
In the Domesday Book, Briston is recorded as consisting of 22 settlements. The principal landowners were William the Conqueror and William de Warenne who owned 60 acre 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 Socman and a further 280 acre was farmed by fourteen bordars. There was a pannage or woodland for 20 pigs which was valued at 16 shillings.
On the 17 August 1941, a Vickers Wellington of No. 12 Squadron RAF crashed close to the village killing three crewmembers. A brass plaque commemorating their deaths is located in All Saint's Church and lists the following:
* Pilot-Officer Bernard M. J. Vincent (d.1941) of Yeovil, Somerset
* Flight-Sergeant Edward H. Nancarrow (1915-1941) of Portsmouth, Hampshire
* Flight-Sergeant Colin G. C. Frost (1920-1941) of Polesworth, Warwickshire
Briston's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a settlement or farmstead near to a landslip.
In the Domesday Book, Briston is recorded as consisting of 22 settlements. The principal landowners were William the Conqueror and William de Warenne who owned 60 acre 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 Socman and a further 280 acre was farmed by fourteen bordars. There was a pannage or woodland for 20 pigs which was valued at 16 shillings.
On the 17 August 1941, a Vickers Wellington of No. 12 Squadron RAF crashed close to the village killing three crewmembers. A brass plaque commemorating their deaths is located in All Saint's Church and lists the following:
* Pilot-Officer Bernard M. J. Vincent (d.1941) of Yeovil, Somerset
* Flight-Sergeant Edward H. Nancarrow (1915-1941) of Portsmouth, Hampshire
* Flight-Sergeant Colin G. C. Frost (1920-1941) of Polesworth, Warwickshire
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Currency / Language
| ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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| GBP | Pound sterling | £ | 2 |
| ISO | Language |
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| EN | English language |
| GD | Gaelic language |
| CY | Welsh language |