Briningham is a village and a civil parish in the EnglishcountyofNorfolk.[1] The village is 9.9 miles east north east of the town of Fakenham, 13.3 miles west south west of Cromer, 22.3 miles north north west of the city of Norwich, and 124 miles north north east of London.
The civil parish had in 2001 census a population of 122, increasing to 130 at the 2011 census.[4] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the districtofNorth Norfolk.
The main and oldest buildings are Belle Vue tower, originally thought to have been a mill but now a private house; Rose Cottage, the Grade 2 listed Mission Hall row of houses; the old Methodist chapel, and the Mill Lane houses.
The Old White Horse (parts of which are up to 400 years old, beams and construction running from the rear lounge through to the front dining room are believed to have been a one-room cottage dating back to the 1600s) formally the White Hart was a licensed public house from 1789 until 1961 when it closed it became a family house in 1967
Briningham's parish church is dedicated to the Roman-Egyptian martyr, Saint Maurice. Briningham's church is unusual for Norfolk due to the fact its tower is on the south side of the church.[5]
The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. There is an abandoned railway line which is considered as a footpath, it runs parallel with an old track "the lane" that leads up to "belle vue tower".
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