Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURNHAM

BURNHAM, a subdistrict in the district of Docking, Norfolk. It contains twelve parishes and an extra-parochial tract, around Burnham-Westgate. Acres, 33,180. Pop., 6,497. Houses, 1,470. See Burnham-Westgate.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Docking RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Burnham Market

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