Buriton, East Hampshire
Buriton (/ˈbɛrɪtən/) 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. Photographs by James Derheim, European Focus Private Tours, taken in May of 2017
History
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.[1] John Goodyer, the seventeenth-century botanist, was buried at St Mary’s and is commemorated with a stained glass window there.
The local landowners until recent times, the Bonham-Carters, owned land surrounding Buriton and neighbouring villages where they often reared game for local shoots. The Legge family were gamekeepers for the Bonham-Carters for many years.[2] Other forms of employment in the past were Hop-picking, or working in the local lime kilns, which closed in 1920.[3][4]
Notable in St Mary’s church are the medieval sedilia, the Norman arches, and pillars bearing carvings of water lilies, foliage and scallops. There is a Norman font in the church.[5] On the low side of the window in the south wall of the chancel is a medieval mural painting of the Virgin and Child (13th century).[
