Burnham Deepdale Village
Burnham Deepdale is in the parish of Brancaster, together with Brancaster Staithe and Brancaster itself. The three villages form a more or less continuous settlement along the coast road adjacent to beautiful coastal marshes and beaches.
Burnham Deepdale is in the parish of Brancaster, together with Brancaster Staithe and Brancaster itself. The three villages form a more or less continuous settlement along the coast road adjacent to beautiful coastal marshes and beaches.
Burnham Deepdale merges into Brancaster Staithe and although separate villages, the two act as one, sharing facilities. Burnham Deepdale has the church, St Mary's, and the majority of the shopping at Deepdale Cafe, Dalegate Market and the tourism accommodation facilities of Deepdale Backpackers & Camping.
St Mary's Church is one of 125 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk and houses a Norman font.
Village life centres on the harbour and its thriving fishing and sailing community. The coastal footpath is right on the doorstep, running 47 miles along the coast from Hunstanton in the west, through Wells-next-the-sea and on to Sheringham in the east.
Burnham Deepdale is located about 1 ½ miles west of the larger village of Burnham Market.
Burnham Deepdale,
Burnham Deepdale Village,
Norfolk,
PE31 8DD
Largest of the Burnham villages, Burnham Market has grown from the merger of the three of the original Burnham villages, Burnham Sutton, Burnham Ulph and Burnham Westgate.
Burnham Overy is made up of two settlements, Burnham Overy Town the original village adjacent to the parish church and Burnham Overy Staithe, a rather larger settlement about 1 mile away and next to the creek-side harbour.
Around ½ mile inland from Burnham Market, the village of Burnham Thorpe is the birthplace of Horatio Nelson. His father, Edmund Nelson, moved to Burnham Thorpe in 1755, after his marriage.
The Saxon round tower was built at the beginning of the first millennium, the church extended in the 13C, with later improvements in the 15th. It has commanding views of the sea half a mile away.