Boughton, Norfolk

Boughton
Village and Civil Parish
Parish church of All Saints
Boughton Location within Norfolk
Area	5.48 km2 (2.12 sq mi)
Population	233 (parish, 2021 census)
• Density	43/km2 (110/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TF7002
• London	97.7 miles (157.2 km)
Civil parish	Boughton
District	King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KING'S LYNN
Postcode district	PE33
Dialling code	01366
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	South West Norfolk
List of places UK England Norfolk 52°35′20″N 0°30′39″E / 52.58884°N 0.51095°E / 52.58884; 0.51095

Boughton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.^[1]

Boughton is located 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east of Downham Market, 12 miles (19 km) south of King's Lynn and 33 miles (53 km) west of Norwich.

Boughton's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for either Bucca's settlement or the settlement of the buck's.^[2]

In the Domesday Book, Boughton is listed as a settlement of 24 households in the hundred of Clackclose. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Reginald, son of Ivo and Ralph Baynard.^[3]

'The Poplars', a cottage on Chapel Road, dates from 1830 and is Grade II listed.^[4] Nearby to the cottage, there is also a Granary and Stables which dates to 1870.^[5]

Outside of the village there is an observation post constructed by the Royal Observation Corps during the Second World War, the post was converted into a nuclear warning station during the Cold War.^[6]

According to the 2021 census, the population of Boughton is 233 people which shows a slight increase from the 227 people listed in the 2011 census.^[7]

The village is north of the route A134 which links King's Lynn to Colchester.^[8] The nearest railway station is at Downham Market for the Fen Line which runs between King's Lynn and Cambridge. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport, although unusually for a village of this size, it has two separate airstrips, Boughton North and Boughton South.

The village is centred around Boughton Pond and nearby in Boughton Fen, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.^[9] Amenities within the village include Boughton Surgery, a doctors clinic.^[10]

Boughton's parish church is located along Church Lane and whilst the tower dates from the Medieval period, most of the church is what remains of a Nineteenth Century restoration.^[11] The church has been Grade II listed since 1959.^[12]

Boughton is part of the electoral ward of Wissey for local elections and is part of the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is South West Norfolk which has been represented by Labour's Terry Jermy MP.

• John Young Stratton (1829/30 – 1905): author, essayist, social reformer and campaigner against rural poverty.
• John Ashworth, clergyman Dean of Trinidad from 1948 to 1954.

Boughton's War Memorial is located within All Saints' Churchyard. It takes the form of a stone cross atop a stone four-sided plinth, it lists the following names for the First World War:^[13]

And: John Bray.

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• Boughton Parish Council