Burston and Shimpling
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Burston and Shimpling are small villages and form a united parish in the county of Norfolk
, England
. The parish covers an area of 9.17 km² (3.5 sq mi) and had a population of 538 in 206 households at the 2001 census.
The Church of St George, Shimpling
, is one of 124 existing round-tower church
es in Norfolk
. It is in care of the Churches Conservation Trust
.
, on the west by Burston, on the south by Thelton, and on the north by Gissing
, absorbing Burston only much later. These divisions largely remain.
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The parish covers an area of 9.17 km² (3.5 sq mi) and had a population of 538 in 206 households at the 2001 census.
The Church of St George, Shimpling
St George's Church, Shimpling
St George's Church, Shimpling, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Shimpling, Norfolk, England . It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust...
, is one of 124 existing round-tower church
Round-tower church
Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, almost solely in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, 6 in Essex, 3 in Sussex and 2 each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshire. There is evidence of about twenty round-tower...
es in Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
. It is in care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Churches Conservation Trust
The Churches Conservation Trust, which was initially known as the Redundant Churches Fund, is a charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk, those that have been made redundant by the Church of England. The Trust was established by the Pastoral Measure of 1968...
.
Location
Historically, Shimpling was bounded on the east by DickleburghDickleburgh
Dickleburgh is a village in South Norfolk situated six miles north of the Suffolk border. It lies on the old Roman road to Caistor St. Edmund which was the main road until a bypass was built in the early 1990s...
, on the west by Burston, on the south by Thelton, and on the north by Gissing
Gissing, Norfolk
Gissing is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, about six miles north of Diss. It covers an area of and had a population of 254 in 95 households as of the 2001 census...
, absorbing Burston only much later. These divisions largely remain.