| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.8083°N 0.9012°W |
| Official Name: | Great Ryburgh |
| Static Image Name: | Great_Ryburgh_St_Andrew.jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 240px |
| Static Image Caption: | Great Ryburgh St. Andrew |
| Region: | East of England |
| Postcode District: | NR21 |
| Postcode Area: | NR |
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Great Ryburgh is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ryburgh, in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 484.[1] On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Little Ryburgh to form "Ryburgh".[2]
The villages name means 'Rye town'.[3]
It is located about two miles south-east of the market town of Fakenham. The River Wensum flows through the village. The village has a large maltings which has been producing malt on a traditional malting floor for two centuries.[4] The village and maltings were formerly served by Ryburgh station on the Great Eastern Railway branch from Wymondham and East Dereham to Fakenham and Wells-next-the-Sea. This line is proposed for restoration, as far as Fakenham, by the Norfolk Orbital Railway.
The church of Great Ryburgh St. Andrew is one of 124 surviving round-tower churches in Norfolk.
The Boar Inn is located in Great Ryburgh and is a traditional English country inn, with low-beamed ceilings and an inglenook fireplace in the bar.
An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was discovered in 2016 by a Museum of London Archaeology excavation that was largely funded by Historic England.[5] [6] The waterlogged conditions of the site led to the remarkable preservation of burials including 6 plank-lined graves and 81 hollowed tree-trunk coffins dating from the 7th-9th century AD. The evidence is this may have been a community of early Christians, including a timber structure thought to be a church or chapel.