Castle Rising was a parliamentary borough in Norfolk, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1558 until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act 1832.
Its famous members of Parliament included the future Prime Minister Robert Walpole and the diarist Samuel Pepys.
Castle Rising had once been a market town and seaport, but long before the passing of the Reform Act 1832 had declined to little more than a village.
Although it was possible for the landowner to create multiple voters by giving a reliable nominee notional ownership of the tenements – as was done in many other burgage boroughs – in Castle Rising the number of voters was kept as low as possible, and contested elections were almost unknown.
The Lord of the Manor invariably owned a majority of the burgage tenements, though other influential local families were generally allowed to select the second MP.