Burgh St Peter is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

[1] Burgh St Peter is not listed in the Domesday Book and it is likely that the village was included in the entry for Wheatacre.

[5] In the 16th century work began on a west tower of flint with angle buttresses of brick.

Samuel Boycott, who was both lord of the manor and vicar of the parish, was granted a faculty by the Diocese of Norwich to rebuild or complete the tower as his mausoleum.

The result is an unusual, possibly unique Georgian Gothick brick tower in which each stage is smaller than those below.

Whereas his father and grandfather were ordained into the Church of England, from 1849 Charles was a captain in the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot serving in Ireland.

Despite help with his harvest by Orange Order volunteers from two counties in Ulster, and protection by the Royal Irish Constabulary and a detachment of the 19th Royal Hussars, Boycott found his position untenable and left Ireland under military escort.

The incident led both to land reform in Ireland and to Boycott's name becoming a verb for "a systematic refusal of normal commercial or social relations".

The village's national constituency is South Norfolk which has been represented by the Labour's Ben Goldsborough MP since 2024.