Buriton
Sign in to saveBuriton () is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is located 2 miles (3.3 km) south of Petersfield.
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Place details
- Locality
- East Hampshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 507
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Buriton
- UK place.population
- 736
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Buriton
- UK place.shire_district
- East Hampshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Hampshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- East Hampshire
- UK place.post_town
- Petersfield
- UK place.postcode_area
- GU
- UK place.postcode_district
- GU31
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU739200
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 785
- Image
- The Manor House, Buriton - geograph.org.uk - 66569.jpg
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- Buriton
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- SU739200
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Buriton () is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is located 2 miles (3.3 km) south of Petersfield.
==History== thumb|upright=1.3|The Manor House, formerly lived in by Lothian Bonham-Carter thumb|upright=1.3|St Mary's Church, Buriton About a mile north-west of Buriton was the extensive manor of West Mapledurham, formerly the property of the Bilson and Legge families, and later the Gibbons and Bonham-Carters. Edward Gibbon, author of the classic Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, among other works, lived at Buriton Manor for much of the second half of the eighteenth century. John Goodyer, the seventeenth-century botanist, was buried at St Mary's and is commemorated with a stained glass window there.
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