IMPORTANT NEWS

ANNUAL PARISH MEETING

This meeting is due to take place on the 22 May 2024 at 6.00pm.  This is the Parishioners Agenda.  Please get your agenda items to Locum Clerk by 10 May on 07904043911 or [email protected].

ANNUAL PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

This meeting is due to take place on the 22 May 2024 at 7.00pm.

Ryburgh History

The villages of Great and Little Ryburgh lie on opposite sides of the river in the Wensum Valley, not much more than 2 miles from Fakenham as the river flows but twice that if you come by road. Now home to around 700 inhabitants it has grown somewhat since its description in the Domesday Book where it is described as being 7 furlongs in length and boasting a mill.

Once the manorial lands of the Priory at Walsingham, Ryburgh today is essentially one long street surrounded by the Sennowe Estate which essentially has retained the land acquired for “1000 marks” from Walsingham at the Dissolution by Dr William Buttes, physician to Henry Vlll.

Until the coming of the Railway in 1847, the village was mainly agricultural, with the wool trade, spinning and weaving gradually in decline by the end of the C18th. The Railway brought with it the capacity for industrial scale milling and malting which was taken full advantage of by two brothers, Frederick and George Smith. Together with the Ryburgh Farmers’ Foundry these industries set the pattern for Ryburgh as the working village that it still is today.