Buriton, Hampshire
Historical Description
Buriton, a tithing and a parish in Hants. The titbing lies on the verge of the county, 2½ miles from Petersfield station on the London and South-Westem railway, and has a post office under Petersfield, which is the money order office. The parish includes also the tithings of Nurstead and Weston. Acreage, 6435; population of the civil parish, 1276; of the ecclesiastical, 840. Gibbon the historian lived at the manor-house close to the church. Grey limestone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £480 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is Norman, has an ivy-clad square tower, and contains a screen and a modern altar piece. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hampshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Buriton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Finch-Dean | |
Poor Law union | Petersfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Buriton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Buriton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Buriton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hampshire newspapers online:
- Portsmouth Evening News
- Hampshire Telegraph
- Hampshire Advertiser
- Hampshire Chronicle
- Aldershot Military Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.