Description
Buriton, a tithing and a parish in Hants. The titbing lies on the verge of the county, 2 1/2 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
