Why visit Buxton
Townapedia lists 2 museums and landmarks, 1 place to eat and 1 place to stay in and around town.
Highlights include Oxnead.
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About Buxton
Buxton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Buxton with Lamas, in the Broadland district, in the English county of Norfolk. It is 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Aylsham and 9 miles (14 km) north of Norwich.
From the Wikipedia article Buxton, Norfolk (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museums and landmarks2
Restaurants and cafes1
Where to stay1
Churches and places of worship7
Church of St Theobald
Church · 2.4 mi
Church in Great Hautbois, Norfolk, England, UK
History
Buxton is of Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin, and in Domesday Book it was recorded as a settlement of 34 households in the hundred of South Erpingham. The principal landowner was Ralph de Beaufour. Buxton Watermill has stood in the village in some form since before Domesday Book and was last rebuilt in 1754 by the local merchant, William Pepper.
In 1931 the parish had a population of 490. On 1 April 1935, the parish was combined with the neighbouring parish of Lamas and Little Hautbois to form Buxton with Lamas.
Nearby Dudwick Park is a grade II listed building and was built for John Wright, a Quaker banker, in the eighteenth century. Wright's charitable donations to the village resulted in the construction of what is now Buxton Primary School and an institution for young offenders, where Rowan House currently stands. By the nineteenth century Dudwick Park had passed to the Sewell family, another Quaker family, who further extended the village school; in 1927 they funded the construction of the village hall. In 1937 the house was passed to Percy Briscoe, a tea-planter from Ceylon, who significantly remodelled the exterior.
The village was home to a workhouse during the eighteenth century under the provisions of the English Poor Laws. The foundations of the building still exist on the Buxton-Horstead road.
From the History section of Buxton, Norfolk on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable people from Buxton
Paul AshworthEnglish football player and managerPhoto: Papuass, CC BY-SA 3.0- Thomas CubittMaster builder in London
Born in Buxton, according to Wikidata (CC0). Each name links to its Wikipedia article.
Schools, colleges and libraries2
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Getting there and nearby towns
Norwich Airport (NWI) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 6 miles away.
- North Walsham 6 mi northeast, about 10 min by car
- Cawston 6 mi west, about 9 min by car
- Rackheath 7 mi southeast, about 11 min by car
- Horning 8 mi southeast, about 12 min by car
- Norwich 9 mi south, about 14 min by car
- Bowthorpe 9 mi southwest, about 14 min by car
- Overstrand 11 mi north, about 18 min by car
- Foulsham 12 mi west, about 20 min by car
- North Elmham 15 mi west, about 24 min by car
- East Dereham 16 mi west, about 26 min by car
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Photo credits
- -2019-12-09 Buxton Fish & Chip Shop, McColls convenience store, Crown Road, Buxton, Norfolk, Kolforn ( Kolforn ) I'd appreciate if you could mail me ([email protected]) if you want to use this picture out of the Wikimedia project scope. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons..., CC BY-SA 4.0
- Oxnead church exterior, Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0
- St Margarets Church, Northmetpit, Public domain
- -2019-12-09 The Black Lion, Lion Road, Buxton, Norfolk, Kolforn ( Kolforn ) I'd appreciate if you could mail me ([email protected]) if you want to use this picture out of the Wikimedia project scope. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons..., CC BY-SA 4.0
- -2022-11-05 Font, Saint Andrew's Church, Lamas, Norfolk, David Pashley, CC BY-SA 2.0
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