Lingwood and Burlingham


Lingwood and Burlingham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, comprising the village of Lingwood and the smaller settlements of Burlingham Green, North Burlingham, and South Burlingham. The settlements are within of each other, about west of Great Yarmouth and the same distance east of Norwich. The A47 road runs through the parish.
The civil parish was created in 1935, by the merger of the parishes of Lingwood, Burlingham St Andrew, Burlingham St Edmond and Burlingham St Peter. It has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 2,504 in 1,047 households, increasing to a population of 2,643 in 1,131 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland.
Lingwood is served by Lingwood railway station on the Norwich-Great Yarmouth Wherry Line.
Burlingham House is a Georgian Grade II listed manor house, the former seat of the Jary family, and is now a care home. Burlingham Hall was the seat of the Burroughes family, bought with 3500 acres in 1919 by Norfolk County Council as part of its farming estate.

Notable residents