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Belaugh

Village that occupies a bend in the River Bure in Norfolk, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Belaugh
population	134
population_ref	(2011)
area_total_km2	3.56
static_image_name	Belaugh church.jpg
static_image_caption	St Peter's church
shire_district	Broadland
shire_county	Norfolk
region	East of England
postcode_district	NR12
postcode_area	NR
post_town	NORWICH
dial_code	01603

Belaugh is a small village on the River Bure in Norfolk, England. The village is within The Broads National Park and is accessible by road from Hoveton and Coltishall. Most of the land around Belaugh - about 850 acres - is owned by the Trafford family, who are Lords of the Manor.

History

The Domesday Book of 1086 contains one of the earliest recorded mentions of the village, at the time known as Belaga. Other records from around the time name it as Belihagh, Belaw, Bilhagh or Bilough, names based on combinations of Norse, Danish and Anglo-Saxon words that collectively mean 'a dwelling place by the water'.

Belaugh St Peter

Belaugh St Peter is a Church of England church located at the top of a steep slope above the village. It was built in the 14th century and contains an ornate rood screen decorated with images of the apostles from the early 16th century. In the 17th century a Parliamentarian soldier scraped away the faces of the apostles. The font of the church is shaped in the Norman style as a cauldron made of a blue stone. The church organ was built between 1886 and 1904 by the Reverend George Buck, who was rector between 1880 and 1907 and son of Dr Zephaniah Buck, organist of Norwich Cathedral. George Buck also built church organs for Edingthorpe and Little Melton.

John Betjeman stated that it was the view of St Peter's from the river that began his lifelong passion for churches.

Environmental incidents

In 2023, raw sewage was pumped into the River Bure at Belaugh for around 2,000 hours. This was caused by a storm overflow, designed to prevent blockages in sewer systems by releasing sewage into bodies of water during periods of heavy rainfall. The surge in sewage outflows at Belaugh nearly tripled compared to the preceding year, marking it as the most severely impacted locale in the region.

References

"Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001, [https://web.archive.org/web/20170211032229/https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes].
Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. {{ISBN. 0-319-23769-9.
(10 June 2017). "BBC TV "A Passion for Churches": John Betjeman 1974".
(28 March 2024). "Belaugh village records most sewage spills in Norfolk". BBC News.
[https://norfolkbroadsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=253 Norfolk Broads Forum]

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