26-619: Briston is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk . Briston is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-west of Holt and 19 miles (31 km) north-west of Norwich . Briston's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a settlement or farmstead near to a landslip . In the Domesday Book , Briston is recorded as consisting of 22 settlements. The principal landowners were William
52-471: A Youth Club and monthly film shows. Furthermore, the village has a playing field with tennis courts, playing fields , a skate park, a bowling green and a playground for the children of the village. There are two public houses in the village. On the outskirts of the village is the Three Horseshoes, a 16th-century gastropub with open log fire and oak beams that has undergone large scale refurbishment. In
78-563: A brass plaque in All Saints' Church. According to the 2021 census , Briston has a population of 2,548 people which shows a slight increase from the 2,439 people recorded in the 2011 census . Briston is located on the B1354 , between Thursford and Saxthorpe . The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham , Cromer and Norwich but a steam line
104-528: A castle. In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils ( county councils or county borough councils ). These were formally called electoral divisions . Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council. All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections. Using
130-497: A curious iron cello , reputedly made by the village's blacksmith in the Seventeenth Century. Within the village there is a bakery, two butcher's shops, a fishmonger, a grocer's, a small plant nursery, an antique shop, a Post Office and a garage. Astley Primary School is located in the village whilst secondary school students usually attend Reepham High School and College . 'The Pavilion' (a local community facility) hosts
156-576: A two-tier arrangement. Non-metropolitan districts with borough status are known as boroughs , able to appoint a mayor and refer to itself as a borough council. Some shire counties now have no sub divisions so are a single Non-metropolitan district such as Cornwall. Typically a district will consist of a market town and its more rural hinterland. However districts are diverse with some being mostly urban such as Dartford, and others more polycentric such as Thurrock. Non-metropolitan districts are subdivisions of English non-metropolitan counties which have
182-461: A two-tier structure of local government. Two-tier non-metropolitan counties have a county council and several districts, each with a borough or district council. In these cases local government functions are divided between county and district councils, to the level where they can be practised most efficiently: Many districts have borough status , which means the local council is called a borough council instead of district council and gives them
208-445: Is also available from Holt to Sheringham. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport . Briston's parish church is located on Church Street and has been Grade I listed since 1959, the church is largely a product of the early Fourteenth Century. All Saints' was a round-tower church until 1795 when the tower was either demolished or collapse and it was not replaced. The church boasts some Medieval brasses on its walls alongside
234-1016: Is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's ) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Civil parishes in England are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the parish council (or town / city council ). They need not bear any relation to wards or electoral divisions at district level, but often do. The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland , Westmorland , County Durham and Northumberland – were historically divided into administrative units called wards instead of hundreds or wapentakes , as in other counties. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on
260-746: Is located in All Saints' Churchyard. It lists the following names for the First World War : And: James Fox. As well as the following for the Second World War : And: James E. Brown, Reginald Smith and William Wright. [REDACTED] Media related to Briston at Wikimedia Commons Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors . The ward
286-464: Is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils, the electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils , while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities . Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in
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#1732855494681312-584: The District Councils' Network , special interest group which sits within the Local Government Association . The network's purpose is to "act as an informed and representative advocate for districts to government and other national bodies, based on their unique position to deliver for local people." This is a list of two-tier non-metropolitan counties and their districts. All unitary authorities are also non-metropolitan districts, which, with
338-469: The Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils ) instead use the term electoral division . In non-metropolitan county areas with both wards (used for district council elections) and electoral divisions (used for county council elections), the boundaries of the two types of divisions may sometimes not coincide, but more often the county electoral divisions will be made up of one or more complete wards. In urban areas,
364-484: The Local Government (Boundaries) (NI) Order 1972 (No. 131) and DEAs were first created by the Local Government (District Electoral Areas) Regulations 1973 (No.94) Non-metropolitan district Non-metropolitan districts , or colloquially " shire districts ", are a type of local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties (colloquially shire counties ) in
390-637: The single transferable vote , most wards elect either three or four councillors. Starting from the 2022 Scottish local elections , the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 , allows electoral wards to have between one and five councillors. Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas, with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by
416-427: The 17 August 1941, a Vickers Wellington of No. 12 Squadron RAF crashed close to the village killing three men out of a total crew of the six. The aircraft had left RAF Binbrook and, after a successful bombing raid over Cologne , was attempting a crash landing after suffering anti-aircraft fire. The three casualties (PO Bernard M. J. Vincent, FSgt. Edward H. Nancarrow and FSgt. Colin G. C. Frost) are memorialised by
442-580: The Conqueror and William de Warenne who owned 60 acres (240,000 m) of land from which had been previously the property of Toke, a Saxon Thegn who had been evicted after the defeat of the Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings . This land was farmed by three Free Men or Socman and a further 280 acres (1.1 km) was farmed by fourteen bordars . There was a pannage or woodland for 20 pigs which
468-461: The UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in the United Kingdom is 28.109 km (10.853 sq mi). The London boroughs , metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities ) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as
494-449: The areas for Wales and England had been enacted separately and there were no Welsh metropolitan areas, the term 'non-metropolitan district' does not apply to Wales. A similar system existed in Scotland , which in 1975 was divided into regions and districts, this was also abolished in 1996 and replaced with a fully unitary system . In England most of the district councils are represented by
520-574: The centre of the village is the recently closed Green Man pub, which has now re-opened as the Explorers Bar. Briston is an electoral ward for local elections and is part of the district of North Norfolk . The village's national constituency is North Norfolk , which has been represented by the Liberal Democrat Steff Aquarone MP since 2024. Briston's War Memorial takes the form of a stone cross, with an overlaid wreath, and
546-487: The exception of those of Berkshire , are coterminous with non-metropolitan counties. For a full list of districts of all types including unitary authorities, metropolitan districts and London boroughs , see Districts of England . This is a list of former two-tier districts in England which have been abolished, by local government reorganisations such as the 2009 structural changes to local government in England . It does not include districts that still exist after becoming
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#1732855494681572-565: The right to appoint a mayor . Borough status is granted by royal charter and, in many cases, continues a style enjoyed by a predecessor authority, which can date back centuries. Some districts such as Oxford or Exeter have city status , granted by letters patent , but this does not give the local council any extra powers other than the right to call itself a city council . By 1899, England had been divided at district level into rural districts , urban districts , municipal boroughs , county boroughs and metropolitan boroughs . This system
598-526: The two-tier structure, but reforms in the 1990s and 2009 reduced their number to 192. A further 55 non-metropolitan districts are now unitary authorities, which combine the functions of county and borough/district councils. In Wales , an almost identical two-tier system of local government existed between 1974 and 1996 (see Districts of Wales ). In 1996, this was abolished and replaced with an entirely unitary system of local government, with one level of local government responsible for all local services. Since
624-558: The wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly the same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury ) can be divided into two or more wards. The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and
650-673: Was abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and the Local Government Act 1972 . Non-metropolitan districts were created by this act in 1974 when England outside Greater London was divided into metropolitan counties and non-metropolitan counties. Metropolitan counties were sub-divided into metropolitan districts and the non-metropolitan counties were sub-divided into non-metropolitan districts. The metropolitan districts had more powers than their non-metropolitan counterparts. Initially, there were 296 non-metropolitan districts in
676-482: Was valued at 16 shillings. Listed buildings within Briston include Hall Farmhouse (Seventeenth Century), Church House (c.1660s), No. 22, Church Street (Nineteenth Century), Home Farmhouse (c.1600), Old Nursery Farmhouse (Seventeenth Century) and Manor Farm House (1700). Within the village their is also a historic Congregationalist Chapel dating to 1775 as well as a Methodist Chapel from the late-Eighteenth Century. On
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