Fleggburgh, also known as Burgh St Margaret, is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located north-west of Great Yarmouth and east of Norwich, bisected by the A1064 between Acle and Caister-on-Sea. History Burgh's St. Margaret's and Fleggburgh's names are both of Anglo-Saxon origin and derive from the Old English for either the fortification of Saint Margaret or of Flegg. In the Domesday Book, Burgh St. Margaret is listed as a settlement of 63 households in the hundred of West Flegg. In 1086, the village was divided between the East Anglian estates of King William I, Roger Bigod, Bishop William of Thetford and St Benet's Abbey. During the Second World War, several pillboxes and a guardhouse were built across the parish to defend the crossing of the River Bure in the event of a German invasion of Great Britain. Geography According to the 2011 Census, Fleggburgh has a population of 319 residents living in 164 households. Furthermore, the parish covers a total area of . Fleggburgh falls within the constituency of Great Yarmouth and is represented at Parliament by Brandon Lewis MP of the Conservative Party. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Great Yarmouth. Fleggburgh is located on the western edge of the Trinity Broads, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, within The Broads National Park. St. Margaret's Church Fleggburgh's parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret and was built in the Nineteenth Century on the site of previous worship under the oversight of Herbert John Green. The interior holds a brass memorial to Richard Burton who served as Rector of the parish in the early-Seventeenth Century and stained-glass installed in the 1960s by Paul Jeffries, depicting Saint Margaret, Saint Luke and Saint Mary. Amenities The majority of local children attend Fleggburgh CofE Primary School which was rated by Ofsted as a 'Good' school in 2012, a decision which was upheld in 2017. Fleggburgh has one public houses that remains in business- the Kings Arms. The Kings Arms has stood on its current site since the late-Eighteenth Century, except for a short period in the early-Nineteenth Century when a license was refused to Mrs Mary Puxley on the grounds of aiding and assisting a riot that led to the cruel wounding and beating of Mr Robert Chasteney, a local surveyor. War Memorial Fleggburgh's and Billockby's war