Restaurant in Sheringham

Dinner & Sunday Lunch

North @ Burlington

Dinner: Thurs – Sat 6pm to 8pm

Sunday Lunch: – 1pm to 3pm

(Restaurant closes 10pm Thurs, Friday & Saturday and 5pm on Sunday)

Welcome to North @ Burlington. We offer Dinner and Sunday Lunch. We’ve chosen to have an open kitchen so that our chefs can all be seen preparing the food. Our ethos is that all our dishes will be made on site. Focusing on freshly prepared food, all cooked onsite and sourced from local suppliers. Everything is freshly bought and prepared on the premises with seasonal and local produce.
We offer specials weekly from both our menus including cocktails & wines.
Please see our booking request system where you can request a booking in which we will approve this via telephone or email.

The place-name ‘Sheringham’ is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Silingeham. It appears as Siringeham in 1174, and Scheringham in the Book of Fees (Liber feodorum) in 1242. The name means ‘the homestead of Scira’s people’.^[4]

Historically, the parish of Sheringham comprised the two villages of Upper Sheringham, a farming community, and Lower Sheringham, which combined farming with fishing.

The fishing industry was at its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as the coming of the railways made it possible for fish to be transported more efficiently to market. Through the 1900s the focus of the fishing, as all along the north Norfolk coast, began to be on crabs, lobsters and whelks. The local fishermen were major suppliers of crabs and lobsters to the London fish markets. Long lining for cod and the catching of herring began to become less important in the second half of the century, as did whelking. Today, from a peak of maybe 200 boats, Sheringham has eight boats operated single-handed.

The current town of Sheringham was once Lower Sheringham, a fishing station for the main village, now known as Upper Sheringham. It is a railway townthat was developed with the coming of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line in the late 19th century. Most of Sheringham’s range of buildings and shops come from this period and the early 20th century. It has a particularly interesting range of buildings using flint, not normally in the traditional Norfolk style but in a variety of techniques. Sheringham Town Hall, the former headquarters of Sheringham Urban District Council, was completed in 1912.^[5]

In the First World War, Sheringham was hit by two bombs from a Zeppelin raid at 20:30 GMT on 18 January 1915, making it the first place in Britain to be attacked by Zeppelins from the air. No one was killed.^[6]

The town today

Town centre

Sheringham town centre is centred on a traditional high street with a wide range of privately owned shops. On Saturdays throughout the year there is a popular market in the car park next to the railway station which attracts large crowds even out of the holiday season. The town also has a good selection of specialist shops such as second-hand books, antiques and bric-a-brac, fishing tackle and bait, a computer shop, a model shop, and arts and craft shops. The Sheringham Little Theatre has a wide range of productions on throughout the year including a well-established summer repertory season running from July to September, and a popular pantomime at Christmas; in the foyer is a coffee shop with display of art by local artists. There is a selection of food outlets, pubs, restaurants and a youth hostel.

On 15 October 2010, Tesco won a 14-year battle to open a store in the town. In a split vote North Norfolk District Council development committee chairman Simon Partridge used his casting vote in favour of the scheme.^[7] The store finally opened on 24 October 2013.^[8]

An annual Cromer and Sheringham Crab/Lobster festival is held in May,^[9] and the town’s Carnival is held at the beginning of August.^[10]

Otterndorf Green is a small green space between the town’s railway stations. It commemorates Sheringham’s twinning with the German town of Otterndorf.^[11]

The Church of England Parish Church of St Peter was consecrated in 1897.

Burlington Berties Boutique Hotel open their restaurant in Sheringham in 2022.