Briston, Norfolk

Description
Briston or Burston, a small town and a parish in Norfolk. The town stands on the river Bure, 1 mile E from Melton Constable station on the Eastern and Midland. railway, and 4 miles SSW of Holt. It has a post and money order office under Melton Constable (S.O.), which is the telegraph office. The parish comprises 2955 acres; population of the civil parish, 1110 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Little Borough and Melton Constable, 1503. There is a weekly market for stock and pigs held on Tuesdays, a fair on the 26 May, and a large cattle sale on the last Thursday in May. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £268 with residence. Patron, Lord Hastings. The church is Decorated and Perpendicular English, and had formerly a round tower. There are Congregational, Free, Primitive, and Wesleyan Methodist chapels.