BURNHAM-DEEPDALE, a parish in the hundred
of BROTHERCROSS, county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (N.W.)
from Burnham-Westgate, containing 113 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's
books at £11, and in the patronage of Henry Blythe,
Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contained an
ancient font, on which were engraved hieroglyphic
characters, emblematic of the Saxon months; but, by
being'removed during the progress of some alteration of
the edifice, about twenty years ago, it was accidentally
broken. The inhabitants have the privilege of sending
four children to the endowed school at Bramcaster. In
this and the adjoining parishes are extensive salt
marshes, for draining, embanking, and improving which,
an act was obtained in 1821, whereby two hundred and
fifty acres in this parish have been enclosed by a wall
seventy feet broad at the base, and ten feet high, to
protect it from the sea, which regularly at spring tides
flowed over the whole level of the marsh. On the
shore are various artificial eminences, the supposed
tombs of the Saxons and Danes who fell in battle in
the vicinity j and at a short distance are the vestiges
of a fortification, supposed to have been raised by the
Saxons, after the sanguinary battle between them and
the Scots and the Picts, at, Stamford in Lincolnshire.