BRISTON, or Burston, a village and a parish in Erpingham district, Norfolk. The village stands on the river Bure, 4 miles SSW of Holt, and 9 ENE of Ryburgh r. station; and has a post office under Thetford, a fortnightly stock market, and a cattle fair on 26 May. The parish comprises 2,751 acres. Pop., 931. Houses, 232. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £317. Patron, Lord Hastings. The church is decorated and perpendicular English, and had formerly a round tower. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £9.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))