Barton Turf is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some 20 km north-east of the city of Norwich, on the northwestern edge of Barton Broad, the second largest broad of the Norfolk Broads For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.
The civil parish, which includes the whole of Barton Broad and the smaller village of Irstead at its southern end, has an area of 10.86 km2. In the 2001 census 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 which consists of two vertical baskets.
Famous quotes containing the words barton and/or turf:
“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree;”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)
“Oh! snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)