Burley, Hampshire
Historical Description
Burley, a township in Hants. It is situated at the SW of the New Forest, 2 miles NW of Holmsley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 E by S of Ringwood. It has a post office under Ringwood, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Holmsley (R.S.) It was made a township by order of the Poor Law Board in 1868, when those parts of the New Forest known as Burley Walk and Holmsley Walk were added; the whole is now styled Burley township. Acreage, 11,275; population, 602. The living is in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £100, in the gift of the Vicar of Ringwood. An ancient church here is supposed to have been demolished by the Conqueror when making the New Forest. The present church is a brick structure in modern Gothic. There is a dissenting chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hampshire | |
Civil parish | Ringwood | |
Hundred | New Forest | |
Poor Law union | Ringwood |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Burley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Burley 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.