Barton Turf is a village

Village

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 and civil parish in the English

England

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 county

County

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 of Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

. The village is situated some 20 km north-east of the city of Norwich

Norwich

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, on the northwestern edge of Barton Broad

Barton Broad

Barton Broad lies within The Broads in Norfolk, the United Kingdom. The broad is situated to the south and east of the village of Barton Turf, and is within the parish of Barton Turf....

, the second largest broad of the Norfolk Broads within The Broads National Park. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district

Non-metropolitan district

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 of North Norfolk

North Norfolk

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.

The civil parish, which includes the whole of Barton Broad and the smaller village of Irstead

Irstead

Irstead is a village in The Broads National Park in the English county of Norfolk, England. The village is situated at Irstead Shoals, on the River Ant just south of Barton Broad, the second largest of the Norfolk Broads...

 at its southern end, has an area of 10.86 km². In the 2001 census

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

 it had a population of 480 in 181 households. Barton Turf church, situated a mile from the village, is noted for containing a very rare surviving example of a medieval rood screen across the chancel arch.

Barton Turf has given its name to a traditional Corn dolly

Corn dolly

Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanization.Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless...

which consists of two vertical baskets.

External links

• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Barton Turf.