BURGH (CASTLE), a parish in the hundred of MUTFORD-and-LOTHINGLAND,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles
(W. S. W.) from Great Yarmouth, containing 239 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated
in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage
of the Trustees of the late Miles Barnes, Esq. The
church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a neat ancient edifice,
with a square embattled tower on the south side, near
the western end: it is stated, together with the church
of Clopton adjoining, to have been built out of the ruins
of a Roman fort, supposed to have been Garianonum, a
station founded by Publius Ostorius Scapula, and garrisoned,
under the command of a Preepositus, by a troop
of cavalry called the Stablesian horse. The ramparts
included an area of upwards of- five acres and a half;
and various coins, urns, fibula, domestic utensils, and
military weapons, have been found in the fields contiguous
to it. At this place, then called Cnobheresburg,
King Sigebert gave to Furseeus, an Irish monk, some
land on which he founded a monastery, the revenue of
which was augmented by King Anna, and other monarchs
of the East Angles. The navigable river Waveney
flows on the western side of this parish, and opposite
the village unites with the river Yare, forming Breydon'
Water, which runs on the northern side, and is
navigable.